{"id":4164,"date":"2016-03-17T02:05:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T02:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2016\/03\/17\/more-book-club-turned-out-to-be-a-discussion\/"},"modified":"2016-03-17T02:05:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T02:05:24","slug":"more-book-club-turned-out-to-be-a-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2016\/03\/17\/more-book-club-turned-out-to-be-a-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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book club turned out to be a discussion of privilege in which we pointed out, several times, that the very nature of a paid discussion such as that was racist; and also, the weirdness of progress: wherein life-threatening macro-aggressions ignored on the whole by society become micro-aggressions aggressively pointed out by a majority (or at the very least a privileged and vocal minority).<\/p>\n

it was strange.<\/p>\n

what I learned about myself: I may face micro-aggressions, but I have never chalked them up to being a woman. I’ve been a literal outsider my entire life so I’ve always assumed it was because I was weird, which has made them easy to avoid and ignore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

book club turned out to be a discussion of privilege in which we pointed out, several times, that the very nature of a paid discussion such as that was racist; and also, the weirdness of progress: wherein life-threatening macro-aggressions ignored on the whole by society become micro-aggressions aggressively pointed out by a majority (or at … <\/p>\n

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