matt taibbi’s exemplary racist backlash

I loved this new Matt Taibbi column about White Fragility, not because it was good, but because it was bad in such an illustrative way. This is what white liberal indignation looks like, really not so different than white conservative indignation. The beautiful thing about Taibbi’s essay is that it’s so forcefully stated and insulting.…

white moderation as a theory of mind issue

MLK famously called out “white moderates” in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail: I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s…

no more uncle tom sympathy pieces

If we’re having a national reckoning on systemic racism, a media trend that has to go is the “Uncle Tom sympathy piece.” We don’t need human interest stories about black conservatives, gay Republicans, anti-neurodiversity autistics, etc. and their internal conflicts, in the name of balance and contrarianism and novelty. These articles are written for an…

the first amendment was written by slave traders, illustrated

Liberalism: A Counter-History is a very important book that’s a slog to read all the way through. It’s priceless for putting current events in context, though. Mythological understandings of history are a major problem for BOTH mainstream liberals and conservatives. In many ways, liberals are more self-deluded and ahistorical than conservatives. Fortunately, all the intellectual…

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