Really captures the underlying white liberal narcissm of much of the "social justice" / "anti-racism" movement.

Also one of the better descriptions of "cancel culture" I've seen, as "corporate damage control culture"

newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-purpose-of-political-correctness

Ok

Didn’t feel it, disorganized and incoherent thoughts from her mostly

yeah lol their articles get posted here every day

Like putty in their hands

Op doesnt even have an avy

Really makes you think

I don’t read any of those, least of all Teen Vogue and Pitchfork. They’re all very homogenous and rarely present an idea that is original or thoughtful, just came across this on Twitter and was surprised to see the New Yorker published it

what did you feel was incoherent?

the insightful part to me was about how much social justice activism is really just white narcissism. you saw a lot of it last summer. rather than some sort of long-lasting systemic change, much of the outcome of the George Floyd protests was Robin DiAngelo (a white woman) having the number 1 best selling book in the country, corporations doing "antiracism" HR seminars, and white girls posting their reading lists on their IG stories. everyone who had BLM in their bio last summer had "Free Palestine" in their bio 2 weeks ago and they'll have the next thing in their bio 6 months from now because online activism is a persona for them

much of activism (at least online) is about making educated white people feel like they are good rather than actually improving the lives of black people. I thought this captured and explained that well

but it's owned by Conde Nast so therefore it's bad or something

As a black student at an HBCU I had to read Robin DiAngelo's book.

That book is made for white people. Why did I have to read that s***, lol?

yeah all this s*** is for white people and doesn't actually challenge the status quo. if it did, corporations wouldn't be wholeheartedly embracing it