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You don't have to give us the exact page, but can you please give us the chapter number of “Between the World and Me" which claims that all white people are guilty of racism and need to repent?
I just googled for the summary. Seemed pretty succinct.
In other words, you have no idea if it actually says that. You're just guessing based on whatever right-wing outrage about it you're reading about on line.
Sorry, I didnt realize sparknotes was right-wing.
https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/betweentheworld/summary/
Weird, the word 'guilt' doesn't appear on that page. In fact, that doesn't in any way look like a summary that claims that all white people need to feel guilty and repent.
Can you quote the section of the summary that you believe makes that claim?
Its clearly dogwhistling it
We're all still waiting on that quote.
Cyrophilia explained it better than I could
Well, conservatives certainly use a lot of dog whistles.
Please quote the part that is dog whistling. I already asked you for a quote. You do know how to copy and paste, don't you?
He may not, but I do
I haven't read the book, but it all turns on whether the author agrees with the main character. That makes a huge difference in the tone and message of the book. It could be a story of an understandable reaction by a wronged man to the society who wronged him, and the process of illuminating how hatred breeds hatred. Or it could be a simple, preachy, moralizing, "all white men are bad" worthless piece of crap.
So it's all the usual argument of "the only true racism is saying whites shouldn't be able to rape and exploit blacks and their resources/neighborhoods/etc anymore"
Got it
Did you reply to the wrong post? I specifically said that I have no idea because I didn't read the book.