Reddit reviews So You Want to Talk About Race

If the author of this flyer means it in a serious way (and not a trolling way), I imagine what they mean is more about culture than race, like this:

• The typical culture of white people in the US has a lot of problems related to race and prejudice.
  
• This is about culture and how people live their lives, not about literal genetics or actual ethnic heritage.
  
• This is related to how the idea of a "white" race is made up - white people come from many heritages and backgrounds, but often have lost touch with those backgrounds because of pressures (both inside and outside families, both conscious and unconscious, both by choice and not by choice) to reject ethnicity and adopt whiteness.
  
• If you are a white person, it's important for you to think critically about how society has taught you to think about whiteness and people of color.
  
• You can learn to adapt your thinking - you can learn to be actively anti-racist, and work to change culture and support people of color.
  
• If you are a white person who is working to learn about this by reading books, studying in your classes, watching documentaries, listening to people, learning about your family history, etc, that's helpful - it's a way of being anti-racist and "anti-white".
  
  Hopefully that is helpful - I don't know if the author of the flyer really meant all that exactly, but it's a common set of ideas for people who are concerned about racism.
  
  There are some good books about this kind of topic if you're interested! I bet the UCSB library has some. For example, "So You Want to Talk About Race" by Ijeoma Oluo and "White Fragility" by Robin J. DiAngelo.

So You Want to Talk About Race

I read this one a few months back. It's pretty basic, but it has a lot to say about things we take for granted. It's an eye-opener about race relations, including microaggressive language.

Yet ANOTHER racist "unpopular" opinion.

My GOD you people NEVER, EVER stop:

1. Forgetting essentially all history
   
2. Thinking short-term, selfishly and reject valid lived experienced of brown people around the world or EVEN YOUR OWN COUNTRY (ahem, Greece)
   
3. Missing the factors that contribute to your COMPLETE blindness on these topics of race. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/16/white-fragility-racism-interview-robin-diangelo
   
4. "Too often whites at discussions on race decide for themselves what will be discussed, what they will hear, what they will learn. And it is their space. All spaces are"- Ijeoma Oluo THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE DOING WITH THIS so-called opinion.
   
5. Lacking empathy to see that what is REALLY required here is to grasp that your European cultures spread mass genocide, disease and cultural appropriation across the globe.
   
6. YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO YOUR IGNORANCE: https://theconversation.com/no-youre-not-entitled-to-your-opinion-9978
   
   Because Europeans enslaved each other, it really ONLY shows the pervasiveness of this kind of behavior in European culture generally, which they would be aided greatly in decimating enormous populations of brown people by way of diseases like smallpox, which they uniformly attributed to "God"; even while committing mass genocide.
   
   So "white guilt" is better shown by the German example. They are EXTREMELY AWARE of the problems of fascism, how it arose in their country and they are even reluctant to take leadership positions to moderate the widespread right-wing nature of politics today, because few people are eager to see them in "a leadership role in Europe" based on the events of the last century. THIS IS AN INTELLGENT AND HUMBLE WAY TO ADDRESS THE REAL ISSUES THERE. "Feeling Guilty" IS NOT ENOUGH- you must be HUMBLE. This assertion about "white guilt shoudn't exist" lacks that.
   
   However, EVERY SINGLE MAJOR EUROPEAN COUNTRY has committed mass genocides of people, but those people WERE NOT WHITE EUROPEANS. Thus, the logic seems to be, that THOSE genocides mean almost nothing in comparison to someone who killed millions of white people. If this isn't racism, I don't know what is.
   
   If you can't see why GENOCIDE is not something your country's legacy should rightly humble people in it, then you're a country of genocidal psychopaths. But, this is pretty much par for the course for European countries.
   
   WORSE THAN THIS is that Greece ITSELF was the victim of the Pontic genocide, perpetuated by Turkey, and so the perspective of a Greek person might be rightly equated with the mass genocides of brown people throughout the world. On the other hand, they committed genocides in many Persian countries in the time of Alexander The Great.
   
   EDUCATE YOURSELF. https://www.amazon.com/You-Want-Talk-About-Race-ebook/dp/B07QBNKJTZ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2V8UAC3F490IE&keywords=so+you+want+to+talk+about+race+ijeoma&qid=1563860972&s=gateway&sprefix=so+you+want+to+%2Caps%2C250&sr=8-1
   
   Stop posting uninformed and ignorant opinions.