I always thought I'd like to work in a bookstore but it doesn't sound functionally different from other retail I've worked.
For me, chatting with trans people on the Internet has really expanded my understanding and empathy. I used to think that pronouns in bio if you're cis-het was virtue signaling, and now I wear a she/her pin on my hat at work to let the kids know I'm on their side (sadly a lot of the adults there aren't, even if they're civil to their faces).
Yes! I think being around/listening to people is the way to expand empathy. Reading is the least a person can do and I think many don’t do it! Thank you for sharing this.
I suggest you also read some Thomas Sowell, such as "Discrimination and Disparities," for some data analysis, and Coleman Hughes recent book "The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America " to balance out the other books you mentioned. Wilkerson mentions caste a lot in her book but keeps referring to race anyway. Hughes view on race vs. caste is much more solution-oriented. The junk from DiAngelo and Kendi is just, well, junk with lots of circular logic and calls for self-flagellation for a new original sin. John McWhorter's "Woke Racism" is also a good choice.
I’ve never read the “how to be an antiracist” or “White Fragility” so I wouldn’t know! I’ll give these others a look. I don’t think Wilkerson referencing class/caste negates her argument in either of her books. There are middle class and rich people who still experience racism! And I don’t know too many people who support gutting the voting rights act who are also socialists who want economic equality, you know what I mean?
I buy her claim that caste/SES is better than race as a categorization (see https://www.ted.com/talks/coleman_hughes_a_case_for_color_blindness?language=en), but she doesn't stick with that in her book, returning to race as the category to consider. It's grievance vs solutions to what causes the grievance. Stasis vs. progress.
I always thought I'd like to work in a bookstore but it doesn't sound functionally different from other retail I've worked.
For me, chatting with trans people on the Internet has really expanded my understanding and empathy. I used to think that pronouns in bio if you're cis-het was virtue signaling, and now I wear a she/her pin on my hat at work to let the kids know I'm on their side (sadly a lot of the adults there aren't, even if they're civil to their faces).
Yes! I think being around/listening to people is the way to expand empathy. Reading is the least a person can do and I think many don’t do it! Thank you for sharing this.
I suggest you also read some Thomas Sowell, such as "Discrimination and Disparities," for some data analysis, and Coleman Hughes recent book "The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America " to balance out the other books you mentioned. Wilkerson mentions caste a lot in her book but keeps referring to race anyway. Hughes view on race vs. caste is much more solution-oriented. The junk from DiAngelo and Kendi is just, well, junk with lots of circular logic and calls for self-flagellation for a new original sin. John McWhorter's "Woke Racism" is also a good choice.
I’ve never read the “how to be an antiracist” or “White Fragility” so I wouldn’t know! I’ll give these others a look. I don’t think Wilkerson referencing class/caste negates her argument in either of her books. There are middle class and rich people who still experience racism! And I don’t know too many people who support gutting the voting rights act who are also socialists who want economic equality, you know what I mean?
I buy her claim that caste/SES is better than race as a categorization (see https://www.ted.com/talks/coleman_hughes_a_case_for_color_blindness?language=en), but she doesn't stick with that in her book, returning to race as the category to consider. It's grievance vs solutions to what causes the grievance. Stasis vs. progress.
I like your musings btw.