Reader riddled with white shame turns to Sarah Jeong's newspaper for solutions to white guilt

When you’re white and feeling riddled with guilt over it, who else would you turn to but the newspaper that just hired Sarah Jeong to join its editorial board?

We’re wondering if this call for advice from The New York Times Style section is actually some epic trolling because the letter is just so pitch-perfect in its virtue signaling:

I consider myself an ally. I research proper etiquette, read writers of color, vote in a way that will not harm P.O.C. (and other vulnerable people). I engage in conversations about privilege with other white people. I take courses that will further educate me. I donated to Black Lives Matter. Yet I fear that nothing is enough. Part of my fear comes from the fact that privilege is invisible to itself. What if I’m doing or saying insensitive things without realizing it?

"I donated to Black Lives Matters"
*Cries a single tear*https://t.co/I8YuO3Um1t

— ConservativeBlackMan ???? (@NevilleD35) August 14, 2018

“I feel like there is no “me” outside of my white/upper middle class/cisgender identity. I feel like my literal existence hurts people, like I’m always taking up space that should belong to someone else.” https://t.co/KOXerDGVj4

— EdAsante (@EdAsante77) August 14, 2018

Sir, this is an Arby’s https://t.co/1pxAWDwpEV

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 14, 2018

https://twitter.com/ongle/status/1029475775525937152

https://twitter.com/AndySwan/status/1029473821332520961

My god… if you spent half the energy you do groveling at the feet of people who never asked for that you might realize that just being a decent freaking human being is enough. Why do people feel the need to appease and beg forgiveness for sins that weren’t theirs?!

— Mike Jocher (@mjocher77) August 14, 2018

https://twitter.com/ApostateAmina/status/1029507381586157569

And yet, all that theatrical self-loathing is really a form of narcissism.

— ?? ?????? ????? (@la_chatte_verte) August 14, 2018

https://twitter.com/FatherKesinger/status/1029512600881700865

pic.twitter.com/Zcdg44IiR4

— kristin (@kost719) August 14, 2018

BTW, I wonder if this is @sarahjeong writing under a pen name…

— Larry Bell (@LBellWonders) August 14, 2018

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"Dear white people": Bloomberg writer explains racism to his fellow white people, provides handy checklist https://t.co/5DdP6V53g6

— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 2, 2018

Reader riddled with white shame turns to Sarah Jeong's newspaper for solutions to white guilt

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