Michael Hurst
1 min readAug 16, 2021

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I don't get what the point of all this is. Are we supposed to laugh? It was cleverly written, but not really funny. You list all the things that racist White people are supposed to do, according to the people that say we are all racist. But if we do those things, we get mocked and attacked for being "performative allies". These are the things that are supposed to wake us up to our inherent racist character that plagues every one of us with pink skin. Yet if we do them it becomes the butt of jokes. It's damned if you don't, laughed at if you do.

So what's the point? Don't bother doing any of these things? Do more? Do less? Do something else? Are you mocking from the point of view of a Black person telling us we aren't doing enough? Or from the point of view of a White racist mocking people who want to be better? I can't tell, it reads the same either way.

Sincerely,

--- The White Woker (Catherine Pugh's nickname for me).

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Michael Hurst
Michael Hurst

Written by Michael Hurst

Economist and public policy analyst, cyclist and paddler, and incorrigible old coot.

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