There is much about that febrile moment worth satirizing, including the white-lady struggle sessions inspired by the risible Robin DiAngelo and the inevitable implosion of Seattle’s anarchist Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.
Bowles dissects both in the book’s best sections.
“At various points, my fellow reporters at major news organizations told me roads and birds are racist,” she writes.
Exercise is super racist.” Even allowing for 2020’s great flood of social-justice click bait, these are misleading and reductive caricatures.
It’s hardly revisionist history, for example, to point out that Interstates were tools of racial segregation.
Persons:
Nellie Bowles, George Floyd, Donald Trump’s, ”, “, Robin DiAngelo, Bowles dissects, Tom Wolfe’s “, Joan Didion’s “, It’s
Organizations:
New York Times, Capitol, Capitol Hill Autonomous
Locations:
Capitol Hill, Bethlehem