Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Sunday Times Bestseller

When it comes to the type of work that people in Britain are doing, the evidence again correlates along race lines.

It was about being in the position to negatively affect other people’s life chances.

When we live in the age of colour-blindness, and fool ourselves with the lie of meritocracy, some will have to be silent in order for others to thrive.

the British eugenics movement believed that social class was determined by biological factors such as intelligence, health and the vague criteria of ‘moral values’.

Both obsessively focus on a woman’s looks and how covered or uncovered her body is in determining

It felt like everywhere, public opinion was veering towards hostility. The drawbridges came up and the atmosphere turned sharp.

It manifests in a rigid and shallow understanding of freedom of speech (generally understood to be the final frontier in the fight to be as openly bigoted as possible without repercussions).

It’s a fear that the alienated ‘other’ will take over.

kind of strained peace that simmers with resentment, the kind that requires some to suffer so that others are comfortable.