This might be the most racist book review headline of all time - Vox

peter.suber's bookmarks 2015-08-15

Summary:

"The Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad decided, on July 31, to publish a book review of Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me, as well as two other books about race in America. A symposium on race in America is a good idea, in theory. But in execution, this review was shockingly racist in and of itself. It contained deeply offensive cartoons and language....So the headline and the cartoon were deliberately chosen to be offensive, but weren't intended to offend anyone....[T]he Zwarte Piet tradition remains beloved in the Netherlands, and Dutch people are very resistant to the idea that it's offensive...."

Link:

http://www.vox.com/2015/8/14/9153311/ta-nehisi-dutch

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Tags:

offense

Date tagged:

08/15/2015, 09:53

Date published:

08/15/2015, 05:53