Opinion: Reading 'White Fragility' and canceling your friends won't make you an anti-racist

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Opinion: Reading 'White Fragility' and canceling your friends won't make you an anti-racist
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Sorry, but performative social media posts about Venmo'ing your black colleagues won't help us either

, Ibram X. Kendi, Layla F. Saad, and other mainstream anti-racist writers conceals a pernicious idea. Rather than promote racial justice, such books often serve the dual purpose of building solidarity within the predominately white managerial class while justifying its privileges. The current anti-racist discourse is a powerful tool by which the system of inequality refreshes itself.

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