It is July 4 (National Day in the United States) and the atmosphere is revolutionary. But it is only in the United States where the revolution takes the form of a Maoist revolt sponsored by the elite and disguised as a black liberation movement whose canonical texts are a self-help manual written by a consultant corporate preaching white guilt, and a series of New York Times articles rewriting history to explain an election whose authors never accepted the outcome. ” The words of political journalist Matt Taibbi give the full measure of the surreal atmosphere that reigns in the United States. The self-help to which he refers is the top-selling book on Amazon's charts for several weeks,White Fragility, authored by business consultant Robin DiAngelo.
It maintains that the universalist idea of a common humanity as the basis of human rights is a lie of white power, and that we
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