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Psychoanalysis and Racism

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Racecraft Is Not Just a Challenge to Racists. It's Not Their Book.

Tanohase Coates wrote a blurb for his book Racecraft. In it, he says that the idea of eliminating white privilege is aimed in the right area. But it's doing so in a way that sustains the problem and actually creates an objection to those who say they didn't do anything to get it. The other thing that does it takes out of the dynamic of racism is that working class people are used to being called 'racists' by their oppressors.

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