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Saira Rao tells the legion of white people calling her racist that there's no such thing as reverse racism

We’ve been talking a bit about Saira Rao lately, as she managed to broker her racist tweets toward whites into a book deal with Penguin, and now that book is out. TIME magazine even lowered itself to give “malignantly toxic racist clown” Rao a piece to promote her book, “White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better.” TIME also noted that Rao was a co-founder of Race2Dinner, in which liberal women feeling white guilty could sit with Rao and be berated in person for the low, low cost of $2,500.

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The Race2Dinner Twitter account has a message for the legion of white people claiming they’re racist toward white people: There is no such thing as reverse racism.

“Reverse racism” is binary, in that white people are the only race that can be racist toward all other races. We’ve heard the academic theory: People of color can’t be racist because you need to be in a position of power to be racist, and seeing as we’re all working within a country that was built upon “whiteness,” whites have all the power. Get it?

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