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Review: In ‘Mediocre,’ the ‘pyramid scheme’ of white male culture
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | November 24, 2020 | Elizabeth Greenwood

Posted on 11/29/2020 11:11:44 AM PST by artichokegrower

“Lord, give me the confidence of a mediocre white man.”

That phrase, coined by writer Sarah Hagi in 2015, elicited millions of flickers of recognition and launched a million tote bags. Ijeoma Oluo untangles that charged irony in her searing new book, along with its perilous implications.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bidensfault; blackrage; blacksupremacy; books; chatforum; hate; hatred; notnews; obamasfault; rop; sarahhagi
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The book’s title is, of course, a bit of a provocation: “I am not arguing that every white man is mediocre. … What I’m saying is that while male mediocrity is a baseline … and that everything in our society is centered around preserving white male power regardless of white male skill or talent.” These are “men who cling to their identity of being both better than me and aggrieved by my existence.”


Must bug the heck out of Ijeoma Oluo that only white men have walked on the moon.

Anyhow this mediocre old white man will be up at 4:30 tomorrow morning the head out to the farm. This mediocre white man took pride in his family, stood by and raised his kids, much the opposite of a whole lot of mediocre black men.

1 posted on 11/29/2020 11:11:44 AM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

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2 posted on 11/29/2020 11:13:36 AM PST by sauropod (Let them eat kale. I will not comply. Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis. This is how Democracy dies.)
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To: sauropod

If Africa ruled the planet for the entire history of mankind, what would our technology look like?

To ask the question is to answer it.


3 posted on 11/29/2020 11:15:53 AM PST by cgbg ( Remember 1876--we _can_ do this!--Biden--Office of the Prisoner-Elect)
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To: artichokegrower

“Lord, give me the confidence of a mediocre white man.”

If that were indeed her prayer she’d be better off.

Alas, she doesn’t understand her own prayer.


4 posted on 11/29/2020 11:16:32 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: sauropod

everything in our society is centered around preserving white male power regardless of white male skill or talent.

and affirmative action does what again?


5 posted on 11/29/2020 11:16:39 AM PST by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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>>”What I’m saying is that while male mediocrity is a baseline … and that everything in our society is centered around preserving white male power regardless of white male skill or talent.”

“90% of everything is crud” - Sturgeon’s Law

And heterosexual white males are regularly denied an objective shot at employment and promotions these days. Merit has nothing to do with advancement anymore.


6 posted on 11/29/2020 11:16:56 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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Another mediocre book about nonexistent problems and racism, and again, it’s the white man’s fault.
If this mediocre woman would shut up and listen she just might find out what Conservative’s problem with public education really is, but then, just like every other mediocre liberal, her head is up the NEA’s mediocre butt.


7 posted on 11/29/2020 11:20:33 AM PST by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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Mediocre white men run the world. The colored socialists want to sit on their collective asses and reap the benefits.


8 posted on 11/29/2020 11:22:48 AM PST by VeniVidiVici ( )
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To: Wiser now

Liberal women are America’s most dangerous enemy.


9 posted on 11/29/2020 11:25:14 AM PST by JennysCool
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To: artichokegrower
Better than being a kow. And moo-moo knows it.


10 posted on 11/29/2020 11:25:45 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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To: artichokegrower

Just another reminder that all, all, of the racism is on the left.

The race obsessed are DNC. Thats how they see the world, its the lens they see through. They assume everyone shares their obsession.


11 posted on 11/29/2020 11:28:07 AM PST by marron
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She connects the dots between the racism and sexism Shirley Chisholm experienced in her 1972 presidential run and the 2018 election of “the Squad,” when “four confident, talented, unapologetic young women of color were elected to US Congress, and everyone freaked the f— out.”

Oh brother!

That inspires me to say, I'll take White male mediocrity over an ignorant Black racist and gender terrorist any day of the week.

12 posted on 11/29/2020 11:28:57 AM PST by DoughtyOne (I'm calling for terrorist and criminal reform. Defund them now!)
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So go find a fat sloppy latina to perform surgery after the next neighborhood gangbanger puts a pill in your arse.


13 posted on 11/29/2020 11:30:51 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: StAnDeliver

She makes a living off trashing White men who developed the
premier nation on the planet.


14 posted on 11/29/2020 11:30:57 AM PST by DoughtyOne (I'm calling for terrorist and criminal reform. Defund them now!)
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She’s admitting she’s below mediocre? Ok.


15 posted on 11/29/2020 11:31:01 AM PST by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: artichokegrower

All of these people need a ####ing bat taken to their heads for spending their lives crying like little b.tches.

My life reads like a ####ing country music song but I got up every time and started the rebuilding process each time I got knocked down,

You keep moving forward and fighting. And you take the punches that come your way.

That’s how winning is accomplished!!!

It’s hard and it’s tiring and sometimes you want to give up.

But you don’t.

So STFU, stop popping out kids at 15, go to school, get a good job, get married, THEN have kids and ST mother #### up.

I still got a few more hours of hangover to sleep off.

ciao


16 posted on 11/29/2020 11:31:14 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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Like the ones who, with the help of God created Western Civilization. The civilization of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all mankind.


17 posted on 11/29/2020 11:32:24 AM PST by pke
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To: artichokegrower

Now if only confidence had anything to do with the state of a person’s ability to do anything.

This useless crybaby excuse making cow’s “observation” is just another racist pigeyed snarling Hate swipe.


18 posted on 11/29/2020 11:33:00 AM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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White guys held us back with their primitive calculus, physics, chemistry, and engineering. I guess if people of color had been in charge we’d have personal spaceships and time travel by now. You know, like they have in Africa.


19 posted on 11/29/2020 11:35:41 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: StAnDeliver
What does the pic show? Where's the pic from?


20 posted on 11/29/2020 11:37:02 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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