Best racial relations sociology books according to redditors

We found 115 Reddit comments discussing the best racial relations sociology books. We ranked the 43 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.

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u/3rwan · 54 pointsr/europe

Charb, the late director of Charlie Hebdo killed in the terrorist attack back in January, published the following:

Open Letter: On Blasphemy, Islamophobia, and the True Enemies of Free Expression

It's a truly remarkable book, and very short. I recommend it warmly.

PS to the mods: this isn't a referral link afaik

u/HarshLogic · 25 pointsr/KotakuInAction

Ill be honest, none of the whole "gaming journalism" thing is why Im a KiA supporter. Ive always been a gamer, but Ive never followed any sort of gaming media or journalism aside from Thoorin's videos in League of Legends.

I dont buy triple-A titles outside of Blizzard games. I dont own a PS3, PS4, XBox 360, or Xbox One. I have a Wii because of Xenoblade (and I think I bought one of the Zeldas), Ill get a Wii U for the next Xeno game. None of the journalist shit affects me much because I already dont use their sites.

Its the censorship, the SJW post-modernist bullshit, the lying, the professional victims, the way it spills over into Wikipedia lacking neutrality. Its the way that I, just some random guy who goes to work, goes running, and plays video games, am blamed as a misogynist shitlord just for being a white cis male who is willing to discuss both sides of an issue. Its the way that white upper class people dictate to women and minorities about how they are doing all this FOR THEM, unless those women and minorities disagree in which case they are internalized misogynists (Please Stop helping Us). Its the way that being an egalitarian makes me a misogynist in their eyes, and a racist, and probably other things as well.

THATS the shit that pushes me to this "side".

u/heisgone · 20 pointsr/The_Donald

Charb, who was killed in the attack and was the CH editor, wrotes a book on the rises of Islam which was published after his death:

Open letter: On blasphemy, Islamophobia and the true enemies of freedom of expression

u/as_a_black_woman · 12 pointsr/blackladies

>Dude, when I worked at Barnes and Noble, a ton of old white dudes (always Republican/tea party types) would practically burst at the rim when coming up to the counter to buy Glenn Beck and Ann Coulter books to talk about any and all racial issues.

Omg, when I worked there, this one guy asked if we had this book in stock, which we didn't. I kept my facial expressions as flat as possible to dissuade him from trying to engage, because he was trying.

u/darmir · 10 pointsr/Reformed

He tends to be less than charitable to those he disagrees with and can be extremely caustic in his writing. This is on top of some of the issues with his writings on slavery. (Here are a couple of online resources addressing this. His most controversial pamphlet is this: Southern Slavery: As it Was.) That should be a decent primer on some of the issues that you may encounter with DW and slavery.

u/TimmyBuffet · 6 pointsr/politics

You should read this book

u/stef_bee · 6 pointsr/politics

Those are good reading recs.

If one is still able to sleep after that, take a look at "The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right" by Daniel Levitas (2004.) Fun times.

https://www.amazon.com/Terrorist-Next-Door-Militia-Movement/dp/0312320418

u/sonician · 5 pointsr/pics

I highly recommend this book, to give you an idea of how the US has behaved in other sovereign countries history.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1783601779

u/Blahmeh666 · 5 pointsr/CoonTown

I haven't read this book but it has been getting praise, "White Girl Bleed A Lot". I've also been seeing this too but I haven't read it either, "Please Stop Helping Us".

Can anyone here who has read these books give a quick review for these books?

u/apMinus · 5 pointsr/EnoughLibertarianSpam

I love the guy praising Riley's book to defend the "It's actually the government damaging the black community". Dismissing the system's endemic problems that disproportionately target black people — largely lead by motherfuckers saying the same thing as the OP — is more lazy libertarian reasoning; at any point, any societal problem can be solved by this mythical hands-off approach that just happens to favor maintaining the status quo.

u/deviden · 4 pointsr/TrueReddit

> Rather, they see that the social safety net is actively harmful, and often, believe that federal assistance is the worst way to effect benevolence unto the poor.

I'm British and a socialist, so while I can't speak to the efficacy of your specific social safety net I can say that desiring to see all such safety nets totally removed sounds pretty heartless to me. The assumption that the market fixes everything is demonstrably untrue and leaving the unfortunate at the mercy of a handful of benevolent philanthropists sounds highly unreliable. It could also be a smokescreen for "I don't care about them - I just want to pay less tax".

> If it weren't for partisanship, we'd realize that both the liberals and the conservatives stated goals have merit, and are equally noble

Can't speak for your American equivalents but here in Britain the noble sentiments of our political parties are much less interesting that the things they've actually done. Noble intentions are meaningless. Of course we'd all like to see an end to poverty, better schooling for everyone, etc, etc, but if your way of achieving those ends turns out to be suspiciously close to "letting the rich get richer while the poor get shafted" then I'm going to call shenanigans on your noble intent.

> This book might help understand their view: http://www.amazon.com/Please-Stop-Helping-Us-Liberals/dp/1594037256

Huh. So if American businesses could pay their workers at Chinese sweat shop levels then more black people would be employed? Forgive me for failing to see the altruism at work in that line of thinking. Alternatively you could all contribute a tiny fraction of a tiny fraction of your wages to pay for a better state education system that would help to enable a true meritocracy to exist.

u/Hynjia · 4 pointsr/socialism

I don't know any papers...but this series of papers (read as "book") explains in detail how scapegoating of Muslims is used to control people.

I would imagine looking up subjects related to imperialism and colonialism might lead you in the right direction. France and Egypt, and Britain and India had imperial relations.

That's all I got off the top of my side.

u/Bearawesome · 4 pointsr/education

I book I like is called "what white people who teach on the hood need to know" not exactly what your looking for but in the same lane.

https://www.amazon.com/White-Folks-Teach-Hood-Rest-ebook/dp/B00Z3E2LVO/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?keywords=what+white+folks+who+teach+in+the+hood&qid=1564178716&s=gateway&sr=8-3

u/issue9mm · 4 pointsr/TrueReddit

I'm not a conservative, but "cutting holes in the social safety net" isn't the goal of the conservatives. Rather, they see that the social safety net is actively harmful, and often, believe that federal assistance is the worst way to effect benevolence unto the poor.

If it weren't for partisanship, we'd realize that both the liberals and the conservatives stated goals have merit, and are equally noble. Similarly, in practice, both are equally ignoble, and equally meritless.

That said, that conservatives have a different way of helping the poor than the one you prefer doesn't make them heartless.

This book might help understand their view:
http://www.amazon.com/Please-Stop-Helping-Us-Liberals/dp/1594037256

u/PathologyIncomplete · 4 pointsr/worldpolitics

> That being the case, one might assume that the American people would notice the pattern of intervention, see through the propaganda and assign blame accordingly. But that never seems to happen and...

The US government has aggressively overthrown the governments of many countries -- democratic and non-democratic alike, as author and former State Dept. historian William Blum has documented.

This behavior obviously flies in the face of the noble writings of the US founding fathers and our claim to respect governments "of the people, for the people and by the people." This is nothing more than raw imperialism on the part of the US.

The above is simply an "inconvenient truth."

My question is this: At what point should the people of the world stop talking about the crimes of "the US government" and when should the people of the planet start blaming the crimes of the US government directly on the American people? Is there a point at which we should blame the population of a country for the crimes of its government?

We often blame Hitler for everything evil act of the Nazis. We gloss over the fact that Hitler was elected into power and the German people went along with the crimes of the Nazis. I'm not saying the US government is as bad as the Nazi regime, but do Americans share in the guilt of the crimes committed by the US government?

u/ThisPlaceIsToxic · 4 pointsr/Sacramento

"The Federal Housing Administration, or FHA, requires a credit score of at least 500 to buy a home with an FHA loan. A minimum of 580 is needed to make the minimum down payment of 3.5%. However, many lenders require a score of 620 to 640 to qualify"

So that means they still need established credit AND a down payment. In other words credit and at least a little wealth. As for adult schools, there are highly educated people working shitty low paying jobs because that's whats out there. This seems a lot like you want it to be a certain way, the by the boot straps, get educated, buy a house, etc. mantra, that's just not how it actually works. It is possible to be educated and hard working and to be stuck in poverty.

You're reducing a huge and complex issue into the Republican "Pull yourself up by your boot straps", they are just lazy explanation. Thing is, when you look at data and have also lived this shit first hand, you realize it is not so simple. You realize that there are plenty of educated hard working people that will never escape poverty, not because they don't try but because of how our society is structured and the various intersections of identities and social constructs. When exactly does a single parent raising 2 kids have time between their children's needs and their 2 jobs to go to school? These are the sorts of things people don't think about. What the reality is, not what they want it to be.

Americans want to believe that hard work will get you ahead in life, but we live in a oligarchy and it's about networking more so than skill sets and hard work. Hell corporate structure itself limits opportunity for promotion with its top down approach. 80 employees and 1 management spot, not a lot of opportunity. There's a multitude of influences playing out, and those influences affect one's ability to climb out of poverty. Also, those Adult School have been traditionally made for White people, most education opportunity throughout US History has been made to specifically assist Whites, not poor PoC.

The Meritocracy Myth - https://www.amazon.com/Meritocracy-Myth-Stephen-J-McNamee/dp/1442219823/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=0X1W94PHVX1MTDTXX4SF

Oligarchy Study - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B

Capital in the 21st Century - https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Twenty-First-Century-Thomas-Piketty/dp/1491591617

u/anyesuki · 4 pointsr/JUSTNOMIL

Because you not coming to Niece's birthday OF COURSE HAS TO BE AAAAALL ABOUT HERRR. There can be nooo other reason why you wouldn't come! You don't have a life, and neither does DH! You exist at Hellmark's behest, a-fucking-pparently.

You should send her this book back. C'mon, you know it'd be funny.

u/OhDearOthello · 4 pointsr/videos
u/PabloScuba · 3 pointsr/worldnews

Yeah, that one's definitely on my "to read" pile.

RIP Charb

EDIT: btw, you linked to the original book on amazon.fr, but its worth pointing out to anyone reading this that an English translation (titled simply "Open Letter") has been published as well. Amazon.com link, Amazon.co.uk link

EDIT AGAIN: oh, and /u/pink_ego_box, I'm guessing you're not a native English speaker, so just so you know, the translation of "islamophobie" is "Islamophobia", not "islamophoby" ;).

u/Rabitology · 3 pointsr/slatestarcodex

It reminds me of Ben Cobley's The Tribe.

u/hashtagfeminism · 3 pointsr/CombatFootage

It's a very dry read but there's a 1000 page CPA report that covers the entire occupation and what the US did after the invasion in mind-numbing detail, what went wrong and why. Let me see if I can find it, I wrote a low-level uni paper on it like a year or two ago. I think it was written by Paul Bremer but as I recall it was very frank about the mistakes that occured.

Edit: Here it is: https://books.google.se/books?id=OjM3DTks4ekC&pg=PA455&lpg=PA455&dq=coalition+provisional+authority+inspector+general+report+pdf&source=bl&ots=hSKJEkUytk&sig=ofhqub7tKjjNociRy8vg77vHwK4&hl=sv&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjesuKa86zSAhXB6CwKHbVpAsE4ChDoAQhIMAg#v=onepage&q&f=false

This report covers basically the entire occupation and thus the reason why IS exists, or at least exists as something more than just another Syrian Islamist opposition faction.

I haven't read any books about ISIS beyond that. If you want a book on politics/foreign affairs/the international system that covers
relevant concepts like power vacuums, states and so on, this book is the best textbook I've ever had in uni and it has pretty much everything: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Globalization-World-Politics-Introduction-International/dp/0198739850/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1488081222&sr=1-1

u/LiberalAuthoritarian · 2 pointsr/Austin

This got a bit long, but I'm a bit passionate about the issue and it frustrates me that the very people who lament a problem are enabling it because they think they are being "good" and "nice" even though it causes more problems than it could fix.

Sorry, that's simply wrong. You should try to read the FBI's uniform crime statistics. You have no idea just how wrong you are. Just take a look, you'll find out that you have been made a fool all this time and have been eating that propaganda up hook, line, and sinker. All you have to do is look at the stats for things you really can't honestly believe can contain any real discrimination like violent assaults, murders, rape, robbery, burglary, etc. It's not like cops are going to say "oh, he's one of those white males we like to treat better. Carry on with your raping and robbing, white male. We don't see any problems here."

Don't worry. I don't judge you. Just have an open mind and be willing to accept reality. As someone who used to be on the center left and was part of both the '08 Clinton and Obama campaigns, I can tell you shit is really not what you've been led to believe even if it is done with good intent. But you know what is said about good intent, right? It paves the bleeding heart soaked path to hell.

You have to also try to remove that chip on your shoulder you were given to immediately knee-jerk to an assumption that reality will be used to justify racism. It's really the left that assumes racism that is making these topics racist and about race and perpetuating the racial divide that does not need to exist if we just solve the problems. It is actually quite thoroughly paternalistically racist to, e.g., say that we need different usually lower standards for blacks than other "races". Why don't blacks deserve to be measured by the same standards that are then not subject to diminishing their achievement? Why do we need to have lower standards for blacks that then leads to lower outcomes that then only contributes to negative and poor perceptions of blacks? It's the deepest kind of racism that really even still exists and liberals don't even know how to realize it, let alone comprehend it.

My perspective is that people on the left are doing exponentially more harm acting and lying to themselves and the world by ignoring, covering up, and just plain lying about reality. You simply cannot fix or change something you aren't even willing to be honest or truthful about acknowledging. It's like I'm dealing with a world or hoarders. Have you ever seen that show? Where the hoarder is like "What, I'm collecting take out food containers with samples of their fine cuisine in its natural setting and really really really like a lot of cats. This is perfectly fine!" and you are just watching it like. O__O

As long as the left wants to coddle, make excuses, and enable nothing will ever get solved just the way it has not been solved over decades now. But I guess when you just want a subset of dependent blacks you really don't have an interest in providing them the dignity of equal standards and expectations. Because just as the benevolent racists of yesteryear, blacks need to be helped, right? It causes so much damage and across generations.

Many problems in our country that liberals lament could have been solved if self-righteous, selfish liberals would simply stop trying to help all just so they can feel good about themselves. The black community has every right to be held to the same standards and expectations that you are held to, those include not ignoring or rationalizing away the reality that the black community has a crime problem that can only be solved if responsibility is accepted ... and not just blame some bullshit about cops arresting more blacks ... PRECISELY because the black community has a crime and violence problem you simply want to ignore and sweep under the rug.

u/flossdaily · 2 pointsr/news

>Shit dude...do your homework.

You first.

u/navigating_nimbly · 2 pointsr/The_Donald
u/oldgaius · 2 pointsr/geopolitics

‘The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations’ (Oxford University Press) is excellent. It covers international relations theory, plus the global issues and changes facing world politics, effectively setting the stage for any deeper reading on geopolitics and international relations.

I’d also recommend iTunes U for introductory courses, plus podcasts and lectures (app of choice or YouTube) from academics. Plenty of good stuff out there for free to supplement reading.

The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations (Oxfo04) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0198739850/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_4KysDb9BXX7A6

u/zaikanekochan · 2 pointsr/Libertarian

Please Stop Helping Us is a great book on this subject, and a pretty easy and entertaining read.

u/[deleted] · 2 pointsr/worldnews

Yeah, i suppose having a cop arrest more minorities means that the males can father multiple children to multiple women. All the justice and education's fault.

Also their fault for dropping out of school.

I suggest you read this book.

http://www.amazon.com/Please-Stop-Helping-Us-Liberals/dp/1594037256

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u/jcm267 · 1 pointr/AnythingGoesNews

93% of blacks vote Democrat. 7% of a small minority of the total US population vote either Republican or 3rd party, mostly Republican. Blacks are well represented in the GOP all things considered.

Here are a few others.

Michael Steele, the first black leader of the RNC.

Jason Reilly, Wall Street Journal editorial board member and author of Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed

Allen West was a one term Congressman from Florida and the first black Republican Congressman from FL since Reconstruction. This man is hugely popular with the supposedly racist "tea party" wing of the party. For the record, I am not a tea partier.

u/TomRoberts2016 · 1 pointr/Jokes

Ok. There's various degrees too. You got the weebo nerd/blerd or whatevs who's still awkward and weird. Then you have the type that doesn't mind being "white washed" or not having to appeal to black stereotypes, doesn't mind having republican/conservative values (think Thomas Howell) or guys like Jason Riley or Tommy Sotomayor.

u/Gordon_Glass · 1 pointr/venezuela

>Elliot Abrams

OMG! You aren't kidding! A convicted monster returns for more blood. He helped fund the contras in Nicaragua. I'd invite the propagandists here to read William Blum's 'Killing Hope' so history does not repeat itself. To quote this serious history of the CIA p293...

People caught in these assaults were often tortured and killed in the most gruesome ways. One example, reported by The Guardian of London, suffices. In the words of a survivor of the raid in Jinotega province, which borders on Honduras:

Rosa had her breasts cut off. Then they cut into her chest and took out her heart. The men had their arms broken, their testicles cut off , and their eyes poked out. They were killed by slitting their throats and pulling the tongue out through the slit.

The Guardian, 15 Nov 1984

In November 1984, the Nicaraguan government announced that since 1981 the contras had assassinated 910 state officials and killed 8,000 citizens.

u/alexjerez · 1 pointr/CompoundMedia

Another book mentioned in this episode: 'Please Stop Helping Us' by Jason L. Riley http://www.amazon.com/Please-Stop-Helping-Us-Liberals/dp/1594037256

u/Few_Philosopher · 1 pointr/changemyview

Israel is complicated, more than you seems to know.
On women rights and treatment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_of_the_Wall

I'd suggest you to read this book for an unbiased description of the divisions within Israel and the Middle East:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Divided-Why-Were-Living-Walls/dp/1783963425/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1527082313&sr=8-1&keywords=divided

So in US you need gun for free speech? Last time I've checked free speech is not an issue in Europe and we do not have fire arms in our constitutions.

Mental health usually is not incur in hospitalisation either and as far as I know most if not all European countries closed down "mad houses".
The fact his that an unstable person in Europe very unlikely has the means to procure him/her self a gun.

If you have guns everywhere I understand you feel more safe if you have a gun as well... the point is that if NO ONE has a gun, you do not need a gun.
Heck... in Ireland the police is not armed! Only a special team within the police corp is armed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_firearm_use_by_country#Unarmed_police_forces

So... in Europe you countries where even the police is not armed... and you say school shooting are happening because there is not security protocols?

I believe americans knows they are wrong but they like to troll the world, it can be that you all are serious on this!

There is no security controls in schools in Europe what so ever and yet in US you had more school shooting since 2015 that in Europe since 1930!!!!

Source for US:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States#2015_to_present

Source for EU:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting#Europe

u/youareanidiothahaha · 1 pointr/gue

Thomas Sowell and others debunk the claims that women and blacks earn less in the marketplace due to discrimination. When they are compared on equal footing, it is found they are not discriminated against, and in some cases even earn slightly more. For example, unmarried women without children tend to earn a bit more than their male counterparts. What is affecting the average woman? Having children, obviously. If you thought that women, on average, should be earning equal wages, you were clearly not using your brain effectively, as bearing children is such an obvious and enormous cost.

There is a cost to conducting irrational practices in the marketplace (racism, sexism in hiring and in customer discrimination are the examples we are concerned with in this discussion). For example, bus companies wanted to give equal treatment to Blacks during the era of segregation in the U.S., as Black Americans were their biggest customers. They were forced to conduct costly (in opportunity), racist practices in order to comply with government segregation laws. Most people simply are not willing to pay the cost if they are racist, but I also think that most people aren't racist.

If we look at Asian Americans and Irish Americans who's ancestors also experienced severe discrimination, as well as Irish in the UK who's ancestors experienced slavery, we find they don't have the same problems Black Americans face. Blacks immigrants do better on average than their American counterparts. It is clear it is not discrimination at the employer which is the problem. It is a culture of victimization that has been built around them by liberals attempting to "help" them through horrendous government policies--most notably education that amounts to nothing and subsidies of bad behavior--which has lead to alarming rates of single parenthood (usually mothers) which has destroyed the future of these young children. It really needs to stop.

u/black_square · 1 pointr/neoliberal

I'm far from an expert (or even particularly knowledgeable) on political philosophy but I highly recommend The Oxford Handbook of Political Philosophy for an overview of the important concepts of political philosophy. It has a bit of a focus on Rawls and Nozick, but covers pretty much all the other bases too.

Again hardly an expert on IR, but I found The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations to be an excellent intro textbook.

These aren't necessary 'neoliberal' books, but I would highly recommend them to anyone before wading through some of the classic primary sources on these topics. People might get a little bit lost in there otherwise.

u/fantomsource · 1 pointr/Bitcoin

Both of those can be done voluntarily, without the coercion.

Btw, most of the tax-theft money goes to the funding of wars and social programs that hurt people.

u/nope_not_right · 1 pointr/todayilearned

Maybe they read this book?

Racecraft!

u/LaviniaBeddard · 1 pointr/politics

Of course Sanders is right but the CIA has been helping governments to kill dissidents all around the world since 1945.

Read [Killing Hope] (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Killing-Hope-Military-Interventions-since/dp/1783601779) by Robert Blum

u/ariheretic · 1 pointr/politics

This one looks promising.

u/ryko25 · 1 pointr/history

You won't find better than Killing Hope by William Blum https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783601779/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_u.wUCbZFKPPTR

u/misskris0125 · 1 pointr/Teachers
u/l337kid · 1 pointr/DebateCommunism

If America dies - the world wins. So simple.

>Tell me, if I were not an armed forces member what would change?

I don't know. Would you be a cop? We love hypotheticals.

>In reality nothing of course, I am not a very important person, but let's assume I were. Let's assume that by me not joining the US military, the US instantly becomes about as militarily powerful as Sweden.

That's a hell of a non sequitur...

>Who wins? Essentially fascist Russia,

Russia and China aren't imperialist countries in even remotely the same way the the US imposes its form of imperialism. The US is a hegemon, there are entire theories devoted to this - and there are non devoted to the idea of Russia, China, or any other country you can name - aside from the US. Why?

Here's a hint. https://s30.postimg.org/91mnxzz0h/wmb.png

Here's a book on the topic: https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-Military-Interventions-Updated/dp/1783601779/

>Neither your ideology nor mine benefit.

Actually my ideology does benefit from the downfall of the prime predator nation. Communism is against predation.

u/TheNaud · 1 pointr/todayilearned

And that is the erroneous argument that I am referring to. Have you ever listened to a black republican? Have you ever listened to a conservative explain their position? I'm not talking about who the liberal leaders, the so-called "main stream" media, and the typical black community want to point to. In all honesty, they are pointing you to the 1 to 2% fringe or twisting what people say. And don't get me started on when empirical facts are used and the person using it gets called racist.

Do yourself a favor. Look up Alfonzo Rachel. Look up the book "Please Stop Helping Us" and give it a read. With your argument, you honestly need your eyes opened to who you're labeling racist. If you actually listen to just the two men I just pointed you to have to say, it will start you on a journey that will tear down this facade that you have had built around you.

u/carrierfive · 1 pointr/AmericanPolitics

> No, deciding that US policy is world domination of both friend and foe is conspiracy theroy

The US has a long documented history of overthrowing the governments of our "allies" -- ask most people from Australia or New Zealand, for example. Or ask Saddam Hussein.

Heck, we even have a history of waging literal terrorist attacks on our allies, e.g. Operation Gladio, push our allies to the political right and to be more militaristic.

We've also overthrown dozens of countries, both democratic and non-democratic alike. Former State Dept. historian William Blum wrote a book on the topic, Killing Hope.

As to the cited quote about us taking over the world, that is one journalists opinion from reading Pentagon documents -- and our actions match his summary very, very well.

> "Our first objective is to prevent the reemergence of a new rival…to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power. These regions include Western Europe, East Asia, the territory of the former Soviet Union and southwest Asia." -- US Dept. of Defense Planning Guide, 1992, announcing its plan to dominate the world.

u/LiamBoltonBooks · 1 pointr/GamerGhazi

I've linked to her book which I used in the description, but here's a direct link https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1608462110/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_a2KRzbS4CAMY9

u/liatris · -2 pointsr/news
u/AdamDe27 · -9 pointsr/news

The ONLY thing you can truly do is stop making being a victim 'cool'. Hear me out:

White privilege exists in the same way sexism does: A very small microcosm of the total world. But, it is used as an excuse constantly.


When you create programs to help one type of person over another it just reaffirms this position and perception bends that way. Instead of people chanting that African American communities are more likely to be poor, and have higher unemployment because of white privilege, we need to instill the concept that if you work hard, and have motivation, that regardless of the street you live on, or if your parents are still together you CAN succeed! But freebies and assistance reaffirm that they NEED the help and can't help themselves.

this book "Please stop helping us" (written by a black man) is really an interesting read on the subject.