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Highlights
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If you want to see a white liberal drop the pretense that they care about systemic racism and injustice, just tell them that their privately tutored kid didn’t get into whatever “elite” school they were hoping for
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Learning how to ignore white folks and their stupid racial theories while living your full life is pretty much the final test towards emancipation
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conservative majority is ending affirmative action because college admissions are maybe the only place in American life where being white isn’t an automatic benefit to the possessor of precious white skin.
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Whiteness in this country is celebrated, protected, and centered. It’s given the default position—to such an extent that even my own Black-ass self, in my Black-ass columns, will often use the term “nonwhite,” as if melanin deficiency is somehow the global standard everyone else deviates from.
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scores of white people will vote against policies that benefit primarily them (healthcare, food stamps, drug rehabilitation programs) if they even think that too many people of color are getting in on the action.
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the mere possibility that their whiteness wasn’t helping them out every single second of every goddamn day drove a certain kind of white person insane. Affirmative action made them feel like perhaps the world did not revolve around their hopes and dreams and comforts, so it had to be killed.