[lbo-talk] Admitting that white privilege helps you is really just congratulating yourself

[Joseph Catron]

"There's a strange, profoundly contemporary form of behavior that says
a lot about our continuing problems with race and the deeply anxious,
neurotic ways in which we're confronting those problems: the
ritualistic practice of white self-indictment.

"On the Internet, white people have taken to acknowledging their own
white privilege, and thus their own complicity in white supremacy.
This behavior is undertaken, with eminent sincerity, in an effort to
confront the abundant racial inequality in contemporary America. But
like so much else in our society, the practice has ultimately worked
not to undermine structural racism — the putative aim — but merely to
deepen the self-regard of the educated white elite ..."

http://wapo.st/1SJzyX5

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"Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure
mægen lytlað."