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Arun Kundnani: What Liberal Anti-racism Gets Wrong About Racial Capitalism

Red Medicine

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How to Differentiate Between Potty Training and Class Consciousness

In the book you're rightly very critical of the way in which anti racist politics has become a kind of self help LinkedIn self development practice for white people. But structures of racial capitalism neoliberalism do also operate on a kind of on a psychic level right and so we've got this thing of it's all about unconscious bias is like well not really but then also psychoanalysis does offer a huge set of tools think about stuff. So how can we kind of differentiate between the sort of potty training required to transform society through kind of political and racial and kind of class consciousness? Yeah, yeah, that's I mean that's the big question isn't.

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