How To Be An Anti-Racist: Book Discussion
This is just the scattered musings that I wrote down as I listened to the audiobook. The general idea is that this is a variation of Critical Race Theory made digestible for a wider audience. Kendi tries to dismiss this, but anyone who has read the basics of CRT can see the basic ideas reflected; at best, he criticizes some of the more obnoxious variations of CRT. Racism is not reducible to individual biases, but is systemic/institutional. This assumes that the ultimate problem is racial disparities. Colorblind policies are racist in the context of the wider system, as they do not work against the system, instead allowing the disparities to persist. CRT is especially known for suggesting that our society is built to be racist, rather than racism simply being a bug within a non-racist system. Kendi suggests something similar at the end, concluding that our modern (2020ish) society is basically stage-four cancer. Cap all of that off with a starry-eyed ending about how things can get bett...