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Good but flawed.

Revisado: 11-21-22

It's definitely a manga-style story and I liked it a lot. That said, there are a few places in every book where the narration is interrupted by a piece of dialog being repeated due to editing flaws.

It's fairly easy to move past, but I found it annoying.

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A brilliant lens

Revisado: 09-17-22

I love books that expose you to different ways of seeing the world. This book is a brilliant example.

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Skip. The. Prolog.

Revisado: 01-24-22

I'm in the middle of listening to this book, but I wanted to write this before I got too far into the book to remember it - because I'm already trying to put it out of my mind so as not to judge the rest of the book by it.

The prolog repeats roughly the same information and theme at least 3 times in slightly different words. It invoked 26 minutes of thinking, "get on with it!" and made me want to stop listening for fear that the rest of the book would be as repetitive.

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Informative and Affirming

Revisado: 10-31-21

Having been a secular activist I found reading both White Fragility and How to be an Anti-Racist to be no different than reading religious apologetics. Something about both books smacked of pedantic religiosity and I've been trying to articulate that opinion ever since. This book is that articulation and I found it both enlightening and comforting to know that I'm not alone.

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The religion of anti-racism

Revisado: 11-22-20

While listening to this book, I couldn't escape the feeling that I was being preached to by an evangelical Christian.

It starts off by more or less forgiving all white people for being inherently racist - the same way that evangelicals preach that all people are inherently sinful but are or can-be forgiven through/by Jesus.

It goes on to describe the many ways/reasons that they must (continually and in a neverending way) earn that forgiveness by accepting their racist nature and engaging in anti-racist practices including preaching the good word to other white people - which to me is no different from the rest of the evangelical Christian tactic to get people to spread the "good word" that we are created sick and commanded to be well.

The book even sets up an unfalsifiable cannon in that any objection to the book's assertions or even any thought to the contrary is confirmation that the objection or thinker is racist.

My review of the book is in no way a denial that racism exists or even that I have some sort of racial bias. Some of the ideas is this book are quite good just like there are some passages in the Bible that are beautiful and ring true.

I'm merely trying to point out what I think should be obvious to anyone who reads the book. The visceral negative reactions to the author's way of thinking might have much less to do with the idea that all white people are racist and probably more to do with the unfalsifiable and inescapable nature that the author asserts exists:

You (a white person) will always be racist unless you become (the author's sect of) anti-racist.

"Life is a struggle between good people and bad people." ~ The Coddling of the American Mind

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Like a warm bathrobe...

Revisado: 02-22-20

A wonderful book full of comforting wisdom whose reading is like the audio version of wearing a warm bathrobe while drinking a cup of hot coco on a cold day.

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Wonderful stories with valuable lessons

Revisado: 10-01-19

Turning weakness into strengths and recognizing limitations of power - what could be better or more enthralling?

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Worth the time & money

Revisado: 04-05-19

Overall this is a great course to listen to and well worth the time and money. I think this was recorded in 2011 and in 2011 it was definitely up to date. A few things have changed since this was recorded and some (I'd say maybe 3%) of the info should be updated.

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Wonderful

Revisado: 03-22-19

Whether you've never meditated before, (like me) you have some experience with meditation and mindfulness training, are skeptical of meditation and mindfulness, or are an experienced meditator, this course has something worth every second of your attention and time.

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Paranoid inducing in the best way.

Revisado: 03-15-19

After listening to this recording, I have begun taking my sleep extremely seriously. The data and conclusions in this book are wonderfully put, eye opening, and will make you paranoid about getting a good night's sleep.

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