In this episode, we discuss the concept of white privilege and give our critique of the popular theory peddled by those such as Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi. We talk about why we think the conversation is being steered away from class issues, and why identity has taken the center stage in political and social discourse.
Links:
Why Power Is Getting Woke: https://www.inquiremore.com/p/why-power-is-getting-woke
A Marxist critique of the theory of ‘white privilege: https://redflag.org.au/node/7254
Deconstructing White Privilege with Dr. Robin DiAngelo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwIx3KQer54
The difference between being “not racist” and antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCxbl5QgFZw
Antiracism: A Neoliberal Alternative to the Left: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10624-017-9476-3
Nothing Left: https://harpers.org/archive/2014/03/nothing-left-2/
How Race Politics Liberated the Elites: https://unherd.com/2020/12/how-race-politics-liberated-the-elites/
Thorstien Veblens Theory of the Leisure Class: https://quillette.com/2019/11/16/thorstein-veblens-theory-of-the-leisure-class-a-status-update/
Unpacking Peggy McIntosh’s Knapsack: https://quillette.com/2018/08/29/unpacking-peggy-mcintoshs-knapsack/
The Left’s Culture War Rebranding: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2020/12/the-lefts-culture-war-rebranding/
Future Shock by Alvin Toffler https://bookshop.org/books/future-shock-9780808501527/9780553277371?aid=21042&listref=populism-class-and-economics
