| RATING: | 80% |
| FORMAT: | Book |
A Study of First-World Problems
Amusing satire on the triviality of non-Black culture and its inherent lack of perspective on life.
To White people, all problems are equally important no matter how unimportant they actually are. This allows Whites to pretend their problems are always the most important no matter how unimportant they actually are. And to pretend that life-&-death issues are an everyday occurrence comparable to, say, the Holocaust, racial slavery and the War on Terror. This White sense of entitlement is precisely designed to evade such important issues by foregrounding White inconsequentialities on the assumption that suffering is the basis of a sense of human authenticity and that privileged Whites suffer just as much as everyone else - especially when they do not.
Inevitably, since the book itself was written by a White who benefits from the very culture he criticizes, others need not assume that he is serious about undermining the world that gave him his relatively-comfortable life; rendering the book’s critique a lot of simple-minded liberal fun, but in now way a call to revolution - unlike, say, the works of Tim Wise.
Ultimately, all White Whines come down to the same thing: Whites not getting what they want, when they want it, all the time. Control freakery is designed to filter-out all the unpleasant stuff about life; leaving only the trivial to be incensed about. A culture predicated on the notion that you are whom others think you are, so better put on the best show: Whites imagining themselves to be individuals and everyone else to be lumpenproletariat. A spoiled child stamping its foot in temper-tantrum frustration would know better.
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