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Even minorities sometimes want to hear about something other than being a minority.


Especially minorities. Listening to liberal white people talk to other liberal white people about race is the eye-gougingly terrible.


I’m white, but I often notice all white panels discussing how awful white people are, but somehow neglected to invite a non-white person to participate in the discussion.


And when they do, it’s someone they hand-picked to say the things they want to hear.

I’ll note this though: I think the people who do this don’t really identify as “white.” It’s become a class marker. Your plumber is “white.” NPR listeners aren’t “white.”


What are you talking about? Honestly what weird strawman are you trying to set up?

NPR listeners aren't white? What are you trying to say here?


“White” is a socially and culturally constructed label, not an ethnic group. For example, Germans and French people in those countries don’t identify as “white”—they identify as German and French. It’s a label created in the context of racial politics.

My theory is that NPR listeners no longer really identify with the label “white.” They might acknowledge the label applies to them. But when they complain about “white people” they are referring to other white people.




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