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I chose this book because this guy is gonna be another one of Trump‘s whipping boys.

I‘ll admit that Vivek is very smart and that many of his values align with mine. But he has this scary ability to spin those values into a conservative world view and you‘re like, “How‘d the hell you come to that conclusion?”

He derides Trump a lot in this book, which is funny because, well… you know.

Also he should have titled this book: I‘m Not Racist but…”

Readers who enjoy this book would probably also enjoy "Woke Racism" by John McWhorter, and "San Fransicko" by Michael Shellenberger.

Ramaswamy is a conservative, so of course, some of the things he believes are bat shit crazy. For example, he believes that the only reason why Donald Trump was a bad president was because he was distracted by the "phony" Russia investigation. And of course, there was the obligatory section where he started masturbating to Ronald Reagan. But aside from that, I agree with just about everything he says in this important book.

He's referring here to the Boogaloo Bois, and as someone who LOVES to wear Hawaiian shirts, I will be supremely pissed off if they gain prominence and I get mistaken for one of these lunatics.

With the obvious exception of Donald Trump.

A fascinating take on philosopher Immanuel Kant; more specifically, the Kant quotation that the "Golden Rule" is loosely based on.

(Continued)...applications consultants promising to get the kids into the Ivy League no doubt advised them all to open eith a victimhood statement. You shouldn't view your feelings about the racism you've experienced or the sexual assault you've survived as a good way to get into college, and you shouldn't be asked to.

(China actually has the stronger navy).

...change.

(Continued)...blame black fathers or white cops? Or maybe white voters? In the eyes of a tale of victimhood, carving up causal origins and divvying up the right share of blame is the most important task, because it establishes who is the victim and who is the villain, which in turn establishes who bears the burden of remedying the plight of black Americans.

This is according to criminal justice expert John Pfaff, author of the 2017 book Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration.

(Continued)...progressive views on criminal justice end up getting called Uncle Toms.

There are two main flaws with the idea that the war on drugs and mass incarceration were created by white backlash to the civil rights movement: first, violent crime skyrocketed in the years before tough-on-crime laws, and second, black people were often the ones pushing for them.

What all forms of Critical Race Theory have in common is that they divide the world into oppressors and their victims; they simply disagree on the mechanisms of oppression.

(Continued)...The US Constitution's guarantee of due process was meant to prevent the Star Chamber from being reborn in America. It may have been unsuccessful; these days, I think the Star Chamber goes by "Twitter."

(Continued)....make the connection to a year of colonization, conquest, and genocide for Indigenous people, especially before "Thanksgiving."

My thoughts on this:

Every time I think I've heard the stupidest, most egregious form of this "Woke" bullshit that's plaguing this nation, they come up with something worse. For now, this wins. At least until tomorrow, when they come up with something new.

...all you've known, those become regular aggressions on the scale you've built for yourself, the same way a well-coddled baby cries over anything they dislike because it's quite literally the worst thing that's ever happened to them. Bickering about pronouns is a classic first-world problem. Americans now worry about finding words to be offended by, while many people in the world still worry about finding food.

(Continued)...gradually atrophy to irrelevance. By contrast, the antiracist movement in America instead throws kerosene on those final burning embers of racism--inflaming the very problem that it supposedly addresses. Antiracism often speaks racism into existence by demanding that we view and treat people differently on the basis of their skin color.