/lit/ - Literature

its not colonization bc im white

>>15588644

>white authors, you are in some ways listening to an extension of your own voice on repeat?

What does this even mean? How far off keel do you need to be to think this phrase means anything?

>>15588644

So should liberal PoC diversify their bookshelf by reading more literature from white conservative cannon?

>>15588664
As a narcissistic, evil white-supremist, I love to listen to audio recordings of myself giving speeches and presentations.

>>15588644
>identify as white
Why would anyone in the woke liberal left even want to identify as such when whites always get the ass end of the stick.

>>15588664
especially since whites are by far the most individualistic group also how is my bookshelf even "colonised" if Im white in a European country

>>15588644
>tfw not a single minority on my bookshelf

Nothin personal niggo’

How can we know what a book is about before reading it? And why must all literature be about the same thing? Namely, class, gender, and race? What reason could be found for reading the content of different works to one issue? How could this severe narrowing of content be justified? Ordinarily, when we pick up a book we have not read,we assume we are about to become familiar with its content. Race-gender-class critics, however, seem to know in advance. And if criticism is to be reduced to results that are largely predicable before we even begin, what is the point of it?

The race-gender-class program claims that criticism should not be concerned primarily with the content of a literary work-- its unique stamp, the individual meaning that makes it unlike any other work, the specific qualities that make readers return to it again and again. But it is puzzling to think that any valid form of literary criticism would not be centrally concerned with such things. What, then can the point of race-gender-class criticism be?

This type of criticism puts works of literature on ideological trial by measuring them against "correct" attitudes toward race, gender, and class found wanting or not. For example, a race-gender-class critic looking at gender roles in Grimm's Fairy Tales will find boys and girls reflect the sexual stereotypes of the time-- which are of course bad. Nothing has been achieved by reading the book this way, as every book from that time period will contain the same sexual stereotypes. What the critic has done amounts to nothing of significance because the critic has only said that the Grimms wrote in the early nineteenth century.

>>15588693
Look again. Hitler was Jewish.

>>15588644

I don't read to create a metric in my head if I'm sufficiently diverse enough. The whole idea is a rather pernicious way of saying "you're actually ignorant, and reading wrong".

>>15588664
this racist means all white authors have the same opinions and thoughts, regardless of what country they were born in or what time period it was. Thus Plato and Dan Brown are the same in the sense that they hate niggers.

>>15588644
I don't buy Russian books (only download them for my ebook).

>>15588709
(unironically)

>>15588644
I have Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki, does that count?

>>15588644

>written by a white man

is not a literary criticism

>>15588644
>white people: stop listening to other white people!
>everyone else: you’re fine
how is this not just an attack on the integrity of western culture? oh wait, they don’t claim it isn’t— nvm.

SJW keeps repeating this idea of "The Canon” that is completely false. Canon are made by civilizations: there's a Chinese canon, an Indian canon, Persian canon, Arabic canon etc.

>>15588730
Notice how there's no African canon? I wonder why...

Funny how 'colonialism' now means white people living by themselves in their homelands and 'decolonialism' means settling alien people in white lands and deconstructing the indigenous culture.

>do I own any books by a non-White author?
Hmmm only Richard Sorbaji that I can think of, but's he a blue-eyed Anglicised Persian/Parsi. Oh and Queen Kondo.

>>15588733
Most likely because there're hundreds of ethnic groups in Africa whose "literature" is based on oral transmission by bards.

>>15588644
>getting rid of good books for twitter likes and lebbit karma
No thanks I'm not that retarded

>>15588763
Most likely because canon are made by CIVILAZATIONS

>>15588644
Not even opposed to diversifying reading list, but the ugly implication of this is that its a pure direct causal link without, you know, white people being promenant writers in english for an obvious reason. Might as well complain why so much classical chinese was writen by Han peoples.

>>15588763
Bard's don't preclude literature. Make a coherent argument next time you post.

It’s all so tiresome.

>>15588694
This.

Fuck you. I'm not going to disregard the opinions of the greatest writers who ever lived just because they're white, you racist.

>>15588644
>Go to Twitter/Reddit
>take a screenshot of hot takes by annoying e-libs
>post here for fags to seethe at
>repeat 20 every day
Stop posting these threads here and get the fuck of my board you fucking bitchtited cum-brain go to /pol/ if you want to see faggots seethe.

>>15588820
The type of people in that screenshot are browsing this same board. I've seen that subreddit getting recommended here.

>>15588800
Who said that

>>15588820
This but unironically

>>15588664
American brain disease

I literally don't care about what the authors of the books I read are or do.

I'm just going to post this quote for no reason at all.

>“If I had but one bullet and were faced by both an enemy and a traitor, I would let the traitor have it.” ― Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, For My Legionaries

>>15588644
Without colonization I wouldn't exist, I will never criticize historical events that led to my conception (both world wars included).

>>15588833
the people who say to "decolonize your bookshelf."

>>15588862
>Without colonization I wouldn't exist
>so this means all black people and minorities should be enslaved and denied their most basic human rights
>people still think white privilege isn't real

A people is made up of a shared blood and a shared history. This drive we're witnessing from the left to destroy statues and discourage people from reading white authors comes from the same place, it's a desire to destroy white people. The people that support this are enemies and should be treated as such.

>>15588644
For me the author is dead, and a dead person has no color. You change the world by struggling not by contemplating your bookshelf from your armchair.

>>15588862
What a bitch ass slave morality.

thru family friends i know a couple of these authors and i cant fucking stand them. irl theyre all social media addict/ netflix addicted drones. none of them are well read and all of them are the very thing they seek to destroy.

the amount of christmas parties and bbqs ive been to when i was a kid where everyone showed up in SUVs to someones downtown semi where they sip wine and mindlessly drone on about shit in their slave made clothes and then post about it on their slave made iphones. they wouldnt know what justice was if it hit them over the head with it.

i am a shockingly dumb person but whenever i talk to them they all think im a genius. the older white guys were always the smarter ones shocker but they bend over backwards for all these stupid women, who theyre invevitably married to, which is a shame.

>>15588883
This, so much this!!! What these alt-right incels don't understand is that their entire worldview is based around resentful and hateful slave morality.

>>15588867
AH yes the awful colonization by the British empire who ended slavery world wide except in places it didn't reach is certainly about oppressing minorities... fuck off.

>>15588881
This is ignorance. The author doesn't magically stop belonging to a group just because they die. The gospel of Matthew doesn't stop being a Christian text just because Matthew is dead.

>>15588889
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/pol/ is that way, incel ;)

>>15588644
>de-colonise my bookshelf by putting a bunch of foreigners I don't know on it

>>15588896
Educate yourself before you wreck yourself.

>>15588904
Renounce your history and people, bigot.

>>15588867
>all black people and minorities should be enslaved and denied their most basic human rights
Pretty much

>>15588891
Maybe try reading more before accusing others of ignorance.

>>15588904
>I personally know all the authors I read, and none are foreign

>>15588906
The british never abolished slavery. It was the Black slaves themselves who fought against the oppressive white government.

>>15588867

>reading white authors is as bad as enslavement

>>15588867
I don't care about you. My group evolutionary strategy, your problem.

>>15588865
Maybe you should read the image in the op instead of imagining silly strawmen to be outraged about.

>>15588913
I only read local authors

>>15588891
You clearly don't understand what the death of the author means.

>>15588916
Mate come on now. Just look, for example, at the births dealings with the then Brazilian empire and how they were essentially forced by the British hegemony to end the salve trade and then end slavery as a whole, and only under threat of war.

>>15588927
I know exactly what it is, it's one interpretive lens among many. It doesn't mean the author doesn't matter in understanding a text, and it certainly doesn't mean an author stops being a member of a group when they die.

>>15588933
Seriously, can you not sense bait?

>>15588644
colonization was part of the universal human progress

>>15588644
In a way, yes, I purged all *nglos (except Byron, Byron is too precious) and k*kies from my shelf, and these two groups were the main perpetrators behind colonisation and slavery

>the point of reading is building empathy
who came up with this retarded idea, the Victorians?

>>15588935
>I know exactly what it is
Sure doesn't look like it going by the rest of your post

>>15588943
Poe's law. I have dealt with people this historically illitare in arguments on /his/ before and they were not trolls.

>>15588960
leftists obviously

>>15588663
Yeah this. How is it colonization to have a bookshelf of white authors when I'm a white man in a white country?

>>15588935
>It doesn't mean the author doesn't matter in understanding a text, and it certainly doesn't mean an author stops being a member of a group when they die.
That's literally what it means though

>>15588974
Yeah, I just like to laugh at my own posts. I'm >>15588867 >>15588886 >>15588896 >>15588916

>>15588891
Read Barthes.

>>15588925
This is a banned reaction image now. Thanks Netflix.

>>15588983
>>15588969
Within that lens, yes. But in the end, no. The author matters but I don't know why you bringing this up to begin with. Are you arguing that the death of the author means that people stop being members of a group when they die? You're not a smart man.

>>15588960
>Tfw neo-victorianism is the norm but it mostly shits on Victorianism without the slightest bit of self awareness.

>>15588644
Anyways, ive never felt like i got a proper answer, what is the meaningful difference between colonialism and empire? I cannot seem to see any significant difference between what the roman, persian, or chinese empires did and the Euorpean “colonial”empires. The biggist thing seems trivial, like them being geographically seperated from their colonies, thou the carthaginians or the spice iland empires were the same. Anyways, i know this thread is a wank off thread, even though i agree with most of the sentiments here.

>>15588867
white privilege should be real, you deserve to get what your ancesters build for you

>>15588997
>Are you arguing that the death of the author means that people stop being members of a group when they die?
No >>15588989
Why are you posting here without doing the basic reading?

>>15588987
Yah, there was a 90 percent chance that you were, you can tell by the copy pasta nature of it. Though I understandbitting on easy bait every now and then.

Does reading books like Tao Te Ching, The Rubaiyat, Bhagavad Gita etc. count as decolonizing?

>>15588998
>chinese empires did and the Euorpean “colonial”empires
it's just a tool to guilt trip whites into getting gibs, that's the difference
the only mistake whites ever made was to not genocide all the populations that they conquered, we wouldn't have any problems now

>>15589032
No, only BIPOC count. Asians have honorary whiteness, sweetums.

I have a couple of James Baldwin and Toni
Morrison, and Amiri Baraka books to keep up appearances. I never plan on reading them.

>>15588763
This is a long winded way of saying because the Coloreds dont read and write

>>15588644
Give me black authors who wrote on the history of the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit

>>15589046
I dont want to genocide blacks tho, i just wish Grant or another president expatriated them to liberia and created a psuedo-colony like planned. A semi-civilizing force in Africa. Everyone would be happier.

I'm going to burn all the books from my collection that don't promote POC and trans-positive ideals.

>>15588674
It's a show of submission and "solidarity". Basically the same reason cis people are expected to have pronouns on their profiles.

>>15589097
just imagine how beautiful and clean the world would be without any non-whites
literally heaven on earth

>>15589119
>non-whites
Woops, whites*

>>15589119
But i dont want exotic people to not exist. I just want exotic people in their exotic places doing their exotic things. THINK OF THE ADVENTURE!

>>15589123
shitskin detected

I really loathe the idea that reading white authors is equivalent to hearing my "own voice on repeat." All white people do not think the same or have the same voice or ideas, nor does any race share objective similarities in thinking, and I feel that to assert that is actually racist in and of itself. I think that bookshelves would probably benefit from having diversity in all forms (diversity of thought, of place, of time), but if it happens that the majority of my favorite books are by white men, I don't see a problem with that.

>>15588644

In these parlous times it behooves us all to educate ourselves and expand our thinking. I am not gonna let the Establishment, mainstream paradigm rule my mind anymore. I am gonna dare to think outside the box, to question authority and look at what the rulers don't want me to see!
I just ordered books a couple hundred dollars worth of books by Jared Taylor, Kevin MacDonald and Edward Sutton. I am getting woke!

>>15589142
>not assuming rational self destruction
>not realising Mainlander was right

>>15589146
Shut up you literal racism. Imagine thinking that skincolor is NOT the main defining feature of a person you absolute Bigot.

>>15588644
Americanism needs to leave the fucking internet.

>>15589136
i mean we could keep some of them in a zoo after we are done

S-shit bros. I thought this was bullshit but out of my one book case of 140 books, 7 were written by people of color and 4 were written by women. Any good book recommendations to diversifying my bookshelf with based minority writers?

>>15589171
>race is skin colour
This is a quality board. No low-IQ posting.

>>15588644
by reading national authors

>>15589221
why would you read anything written by someone who isn't a white man?

>>15588867
My country, Argentina, is a former Spanish colony, my family came here between the early 20th century and 1945. Without colonization I wouldn't exist.

>>15589279
to maintain your social credit, of course

>>15588693
>tfw around 1000books, no nonwhites expect for the pajeet epics and a few Chinese 'philosophers' that I never finished because it's all aphorism trash
There's the physics of semiconductor devices by Sze though, which is based.
Feels good. Feels white.

>>15589291
Yes.

Kneel on me
Cuz you are strong
And I can't defend...
Myself from oppression
Now my death won't be long
And you're gonna need
Another to kneel on.

>>15589221
Don’t worry anon. The history of racism, imperialism, colonialism, etc., which arguments like the one in OP’s picture are founded upon, means that white Europeans had hugely disproportionate access to education throughout history and even now. For this reason alone we should expect most of the ‘greatest works of literature’ to be by white Europeans. And, if your standards for reading are primarily determined by quality, then they should occupy a majority of your bookshelf as well.

>>15588644
I'm gonna fill it with more works from the Renaissance instead. Italians and Spaniards should get me some diversity points, no?

>>15588862
kek what a fucking stupid argument
it's so weak that is actually impressive how someone can literally write this

>>15589330
>he history of racism, imperialism, colonialism, etc
that's not what made europeans rich, these were common traits of all civilizations white or otherwise that ever existed on this planet

>reddit

>>15589354
It's not. Being alive is great.

>>15589376
Actually I do this too
>White men = 100%

>>15589221
Seems the correct proportion for worthwhile books to read. Just carry on.

>>15589330
Literature has been around for a lot longer than any 'white' imperialism, didn't cover huge regions of the world at any time, hasn't been a thing in 70 years at least, and access to education considerably improved thanks to that very imperialism outside Europe.

>>15589347
According to Anglos, reading niggers living in anglo countries is diverse but reading white Portuguese or Italians isn't.

>>15589376

>>15589364
I mean, its part of it materialy. Its not the whole of it, the zeitgeust, the organizational atructures, culture, etc. but wealth frkm those things also contributed.

>>15588644
>White authors generally dominate lists of "classic" books, at least for English speakers
Yeah no shit, because the English language originated from a White civilization.

You don't see me bitch about how Mandarin classics were all written by chinks.

>>15589403
ROBBIE BURNS WAS NAE BLACK

>>15589398
no, it was just the industrial revolution

>>15589058
>James Baldwin

Read Baldwin you idiot

>>15588644
Anglosaxons and their eternal quest for submission, how embarrassing

>>15589398
>zeitgeust

>>15589444
based trips

>>15588644
>if you identify as white
Impossible.

>>15589449
Im drunk and gay.

>>15588644
I have greeks and italians and russians and none of them are white. I also have chinese and japanese and indians. Also I have a quran. Plus Dumas is black. Also I have some jews and theyre evil.

This article is stupid because every white has a bible and that is jewish.

>>15589470
this is a christian board, please leave

>>15588674
>"liberal left"
When will you Amerimutts learn

>>15589444
Isnt it ironic that anglos created the largest empire in the world for the express purpose to submit to it in the long game? Trully, submission of this level should at least be lauded for its magnitude.

>>15588669
I couldnt fathom a negro reading glen beck.

>>15589428
He offers no insight that hasn't been repeated a billion times over the last decade, and from the short works I've read, I dislike his prose. I'd read Toni Morrison's entire bibliography before I consider touching anything he wrote.

>>15589470
It's going into a vocabulary for speuds and bros. Maybe zeitguest.

>>15589477
I am no longer gay, can i stay?

>>15589107
I put nontertiary genderplasma to let them know I'm a dimension and state of matter more woke than them.

>>15589488
Zeitgeist means timeghost. It's a stupid term.

>>15589510
It's a great term, it's the ghost or spirit dominating a period of time.

>>15589146
Of course it's nonsense, classifying anyone by the color of their skin is simply dehumanizing them.

>>15589510
>Zeitgeist means timeghost
Geist can mean spirit or soul too. Do you think Geistwissenschaft means "ghost sciences"?

>>15589576
>Do you think Geistwissenschaft means "ghost sciences"
wtf I love the humanities now

>>15589510
Or “spirit of the time”. giest can mean ghost or spirit. Like how ghost use to mean in english
>holy spirit=holy ghost

Art of War, Tibetan Book of the Dead, Egyptian Book of the Dead and Mishima

>>15589488
Zeitguest, I like this word.

>>15589510
Yous only think it's a stupid term cuz yous a stupid speud bro.

>>15589603
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>>15589524
Pseud defence force out in full arms this morning.

If I am a spic I can read whites and spics without problems, right?

>>15589614
>Pseud
Speud*

>>15589616
You can read?

>>15589622
>speud
Dpseu

>>15589616
No, you're only allowed to read black authors.

>>15588670
>he doesn't read and reread his 4chan posts
Ngmi

>>15589626
Actually no, I ask my mommy to read me books and make these posts, say hello to her please

>>15588644
Why don't they just focus on developing a new Harlem renaissance or something, why are they depriving betas even more?

>>15589631
But black authors are utter shit

>>15589634
Is your mom hot and if so do you need a new dad?

>>15588960
Building empathy is certainly a side-effect of reading literature. To declare it the great, all-encompassing "point" of an activity like reading is to make a massive arrogant leap.

>>15589646
Please respect my mommy, all women are whores except her

>>15589634
Hello anons mom.

>>15589654
I will fuck her but I won't pay so don't worry.

>>15589663
'Ello

>>15589643
The reason is that all they ever think about is race. They can't stop talking about it or bringing it up.

>>15589688
Not true. Broadly, but not always.

>>15589683
Go away bully

>>15588867
>Whites reforming countries is bad!
>FGM and cannibalism and twins getting executed is bad!
>beep boop beep bzzzzzzt pshhhhhh

>>15589692
The chick who won the hugos book is a racial allegory.

>>15588644
After reading this, I replaced the handful of black-authored books with the complete works of Rudyard Kipling.

>>15588763
based fuck nazis

more Cultural Marxist brainwashing.

>>15588920
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>>15588773
The image wasn't saying to stop reading white authors you fucking retards it was saying to read more non-whites.

>>15589805
There's only so much time one can dedicate to reading.

>>15588923
Jerk.

>>15589097
Delusional. African Americans are not going to leave the US, a country they've known all their lives, for Liberia, a country most of them don't even know exists. Expatriation would be forced and be considered genocide after it was done.

>>15589862
The solution to this and the overpopulation problem is fucking obviously a virus that causes infertility. Then the rich would monopolize the cure and we would reduce overpopulation and poverty.

>>15589805
Means effectively the same thing unless you can stop time to read.
You fucking retard

>>15589870
Digression from point:
I'd like to see the infertility crisis from the Handmaid's Tale observed more realistically. I was fascinated by the premise but hated the politics

>>15589805
>>15589805

Why should I make a concerted effort to ensure the subject matter I want to read about is a non-white author? Especially when non-white authors are an extreme minority, and in many cases, not an authority?

>read more nonwhites cuz if u don't das raysis

>>15588664
Basically he’s accepted he’s an NPC and thus wants to ensure his base programming meets these new parameters.

The more people try to get me not to be racist, the more racist I become.

>>15589906
yes. in fact, if you were to only read woke authors (which is the real purpose), that would be far more homogenous and restrictive. controlling the information one has access to is part of indoctrination.

>>15588851
hello, based department?

>>15589921
Racism is natural and logical.

>>15589221
Throw out the 11 minority books. Stay pure bro

>>15589960
But dumas
>>15588851
Shoot through the traitor and into the enemy retard

The article is dumb and inflammatory

>>15588644
I don't know if I should be flattered.
Why would anyone care what I read?

>>15590125
Take some turmeric and fish oil

Im not fuck your meme liberal fad.

>>15588763
>groups in Africa whose "literature" is based on oral transmission by bards.

You could have just said they didn't create a written language.

>>15588862
based retard

>>15589947
I don't think that's true at all. "Anti-racism" is a totalizing and homogenizing cultural force, and it's more than understandable to be repulsed by it.

>>15589900
I don't read most white authors

>>15589811
not like it matters since you probably don’t even read at all lmao

"Melanated voices" and pride flags with black and brown stripes started out as /pol/ memes, and now they are real. What a world.

>>15590856
>he STILL hasn't figured out /pol/ is always right
ngmi

I have become an avowed racist over the past week and will never read a single book not written by a man of European descent ever again
I actually burned all five of the books I had by women on Tuesday

>>15588733
It's a big continent. There's a lot of African literature tho brobro.

>>15588644
I read for personal enjoyment and entertainment. Nobody comes over to my house anyway, so I don't need to make my bookshelf a political statement

>>15588644
>decolonize my bookshelf
>there's nothing left
SHIIIEEEEEET

>>15588644
And this is why I'm adding to my book collection at an astronomical rate, because I can see that this cancer is terminal and will spread at an unprecedented rate.

Get them while you still can, bros.

>>15589633
I too save vocaroo's

>>15588644
I'm thinking about colonizing my bookshelf actually

>>15589616
No, you should read Jap LNs.

>>15588644

>we shouldn't care about race
>cares about race enough to avoid an entire race's history of literature
ok

>>15588644
>every white author has the same opinions and ideas
mid-wit idea desu

>>15588875
The question is, when will the LARP end? It's not ordinary whites doing this except at a very surface level, because they see it on TV and think it's "being nice" to hate yourself in 2020.

When will the retarded minority leading this charade finally topple? And what will happen when it does?

>>15591671
Woke Inc is a weapon for intra-elite competition. The evisceration of our culture and history is just collateral damage. It ends when they find some more effective weapon for destroying each other.

>>15591634
>we shouldn't care about race
This was only phase one. All the moral relativism and 'go along to get along' bullshit was a temporary tactic to undermine legacy values and power centers. Now that that is all in rubble a new more intensive and demanding orthodoxy will be erected. Get with it or get destroyed. It is beautiful, really.

>>15588664

They have looped back to only caring about skin colour anymore

>>15588693
No women either

>>15588664
The white oppressor is a borg like hive mind entity and all white people agree on 100% of issues 100% of the time. Ignore those entire millenia of ideological conflicts.

its time to decolonize the English language its self

daily reminder that according to the dictionary definitio of racism, POC cannot be racist towards whites

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jun/11/merriam-webster-racism-definition-revise-kennedy-mitchum

>>15591888
Why? And how do you call it when it is?

>>15591896
the definition of racism has finally been decolonized, racism requires one party to have power+privilege over the other, since POC cannot have privilege over whites and do not have power over them, they cannot be racist towards them

>>15589900
broaden your frame of mind and see what other lands have created

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>>15588644
mfw this thread is colonized by digits of a repetitive nature

>>15591957
England, France, Germany, Italy, Greece and America aren't other lands? Fuck, medieval Europe and the ancient world are already a collection of strange foreign lands from the perspective of a modern human.

>>15592142
by their proximity they share similarities that if you were to look at the works of other regions you would get a different point of view, sure those work but there's no harm in being widely read

>>15589376
>being so cucked that you divide your book shelf and keep tabs to make sure it has a certain percantage of "diversity"

why. Just read books you like

>>15588960
>the point of reading is building empathy
>wtf i can't relate to this book, he's not the exact specific race/sex as i am, where's my representation?
do they even try to not constantly contradict themselves

>>15589221
The General Theory of Oblivion
Sister Killjoy
The River Between
That last one is pure kino.

>>15592946
if you read the post you’d know that’s exactly what they are doing

>>15591944
>POC cannot have privilege over whites and do not have power over them
Amerifats had a literal nigger as their President for 8 years

>>15588663
FPBP STRIKES AGAIN

>>15589376
she'd have an easier time keeping her bookshelf diverse by getting into other cultures and reading their works instead of just hoping they're the right color while writing typical american schlock

Colonizing is cool, right of conquest brah

>>15592708
I see it's not culture but skin color that makes all the difference in writing.
A Black person raise in modernity is clearly alien con comparison to a greek or roman scholar. At last I truly see.

>>15588644
People from other countries tend to be FAR AWAY, and write things IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES.
The only non western nation with any serious media output is Japan, in the form of their popular cartoons and comic style. Even they have little in the way of novels in our bookstores.
Outside of biographies and memoirs the contents of a book are anonymous, the appearance of the writer is irrelevant and there is no feedback element from the reader to the author in the process of reading. I could have read books by people of various races without knowing.

That reddit post is one of the most utterly pretentious things I have ever read in my entire life, 100% pseudointellectual, contrived, and rammed with pre packaged McBuzzwords. These people claim to be motivated by ethical concerns, but clearly take no interest in them on any serious level, which is neatly displayed in the thin and glib perspective they have in their race relations spiel. Race relations is peak fashion, so like, totally IN right now. Fashionable, suggestible, fraudulent, holier than thou hypocrites, trying to humble brag project their intellect unpromted, while aiming to farm social credit in the same breath.
I once read a book about Tibet.
It was written in 1929, by a French white woman who explored Asia for many many years.
She was the first westerner to ever visit one of the places she saw.
That explains why a westerner at home would have difficulty finding books written by someone from Tibet.
That explains the entire dynamic being discussed.
Again, people from other countries tend to be FAR AWAY, and write things IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES.

>>15589805
Schopenhauer said one can never read too much of good or too little of bad. By this rule, I don't have room for non-whites in my reading schedule.

I wouldn't ask them to read my literature and I certainly will not read theirs. Same as reading a womans works: why would I want to hear what someone who is fundamentally biologically and culturally different then me has to say about how to best lead a life.

>>15589308
Same here. The only non-white books I have are philosophy and religion from Asia, the Middle East and India.

No black or Australo-Papuan has ever written anything of value. Prove me wrong.

I do not own a single book written by a black and I never will. The Bantu has never written anything of value.

>>15588644

I'm not, I'm intensifying it by actually reading and engaging with the western canon (much of which I've had on my shelf for years) before it's too late.

may as well watch disney movies with your twitter buddies. sorry my library is a higher calling than your cancel culture

>nearly all the "poc" authors in my library would have these people whipped in the streets and/or executed
>only white ideas make it possible for them to be the cunts they are right now
Really activates my almonds famalam

>>15595379
>nearly all the "poc" authors in my library would have these people whipped in the streets and/or executed
Name them.

>>15595385
Mariategui, Fanon, CLR James, Aflaq

>>15595385
Shang Yang, Han Fei, Konfuzius, Mao, al-Gadaffi, Muhammad (pbuh),...
I excluded the more chill Daoists since they wouldn't be too concerned with what some fools have to say about this and that.

>>15588644
I'm an Arab and I read books written by everybody except black people and woman

So is /pol/ is right?

>>15595466
I'm a med and do the same brother.

>>15595466
I am hispanic and I will never read anything wrote by w*men, fags, and niggers. Keep up the good work mohammed.

>>15595466
>>15595477
>>15595504
I don't read arabs, meds, or Hispanics. I only read the Chinese, and the Greeks.

>>15595534
>Greeks.
>I don't read meds
Pick one nigger.

>>15595542
Don't flatter yourself/meds.

>>15588763
>this is true
>butthurt retards get mad over a factual statement
lol

>>15588644
>wah wah wah you're not allowed to like these things anymore

KINDLY FUCK OFF

I have Dumas on my shelf. I'm in the clear.

>>15595555
I am the hispanic one faggot. Greeks are literally the original meds. A lot of the med culture comes from the greeks. It is stupid you said "I don't like meds xd, but I read grics xd" considering that.

>>15588693
Not even a small pocket version of the Art of War?

>I will never read books by _________
Stupid, I have no respect for anyone that utter such bullshit.

>>15595619
this doesnt count chinamen have never been minorities

>>15595468
you decide for yourself. you dont need /lit/ to hold your hand and show you what opinion is right or you, your a man now act like one.

My books are mostly about pre-christian Europe, so I don’t really need to.

Ironically, the only imperialistic books I have are on Islam, but I need those for my work

>>15588987
Oh you rascal!

When you realise with colonisation europeans were helping them.

Without europeans most of africa would still be shitty tribes waring each other and nigs wouldnt be able to protest about black lives mattering and pillaging the hard work of white man and asian child slave labourers.

>>15588766
There was Ancient Egypt, the most advanced civilization to date.

>>15589474
If Greeks and Romans aren't white then the white race has accomplished very little on its own given that Greeks and Romans pretty much laid 100% of the foundations.

>>15589376
>no asian men
kek. roasties. like clockwork

>>15588644
up next: how are you decolonizing your kitchen? have you considered that the meals you love so much were in fact invented by the white devil? what about the utensils? start eating the traditional african diet; bugs, cow piss with your bare hands, or I'm afraid to say, but you're a fucking white racist murderer rapist

>>15588644
>If you are white,
I'm not. Decolonization complete

>>15596404
Correct. I mean the alphabet is really an Egyptian thing too.

>>15591418
I'm doing the same

I stopped reading books by anglosaxon authors and began reading books by classical and continental authors.

>tfw just sitting here and rereading Queneau

>>15588664
Bros..... does this mean that deep down I am Hegel?

>>15588644
I don't identify as white, but because i have pale skin i'm told i don't get to have a say in that aspect of my identity

I've consciously tried to stop myself from wasting my time reading minor American mediocrities (Roth, Updike, Delillo, Franzen, Chabon) and whatever flavour of the month is promoted and focusing on reading more translated works, not necessarily non-white but international at least.

>>15598915
>implying Hegel was white
Hegel was not even a mammal, but a member of a rare species of flightless bird.

>>15598915
Yes, the white collective consciousness is a dialectical engine programmed y none other than Yakub himself.

>>15588644
Complete works of Fanon