Holy crap: NYT nonfiction best sellers this week

[Recursion]

https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction/



1. White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo

2. So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo

3. How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi

4. Me and White Supremacy, Layla F. Saad

5. The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander

6. The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein

7. Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates

8. Untamed, Glennon Doyle

9. Stamped From the Beginning, Ibram X. Kendi

10. Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson

11. Becoming, Michelle Obama

12. The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson

13. Born a Crime, Trevor Noah

14. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, Beverly Tatum

15. I'm Still Here, Austin Channing Brown

Is this actually happening?

[secondwind]

1. Of course it is, and I couldn't be happier.

[brewens]

2. Do any right-wingers have books coming out? Imagine them having to spend a shitload more

money on the fake sales thing to get their title up the list now!

[babylonsister]

5. Bolton. And Frum iirc, but his book is

entitled 'Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy '

[Hamlette]

3. good on us

[Mike 03]

4. This is remarkable. As soon as it's a decent hour

I'm calling my mother to read this to her. She'll be elated. She might not even believe it's true.

[Loki Liesmith]

6. Robin DiAngelo tho

_White Fragility_ is a scam of a book.

Other people’s ideas, most of them tank nonsense anyway, passed off as her own.

[certainot]

7. i wonder if any of them mentions the role of 1500 radio stations working continuosly

for 3 decades to use race to divide and sell voter suppression, constantly denying, rationalizing and making excuses for racism, white privilege, and institutional racism - lying about events and issues, turning molehills into mountains and vice versa - and it works because it's never challenged or written about and the people it harms the most never notice

ironically, the whole radio monopoly would fall apart without pro and college athletic broadcasting on those radio stations

[BComplex]

8. If that's the case, then boycotts need to be put in place.

Would that work?

[certainot]

9. absolutely. limbaugh is takling too much time off and rw radio was built around him

all but a few republican politicians need talk radio and the aability to coordinate those stations locallly anad by state, and if the ad industry can't count on limbaugh to anchor advertising on 600 of the loudest stations in the country they have to start thinking about and planning for replacing him. but there are a lot of different owners and there isn't one guy who can do that. their ad revenue will drop without limbaaugh so some may have to change programming.

to add boycotts and maybe some black athletes complaining about their teams broadcasting on KKK radio would force the ad industry to start democratizing rw radio - asking advertisers if they REALLY want to support global warming, racism, trump etc

it would be serious mistake from dem and prog leadership if they can't make this happen

[AwakeAtLast]

10. What a great list!