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Tao Lin

The White Default

One more thing: Here’s an article I wrote for Salon. “How Can White Americans Be Free?” The default belief that the white experience is a neutral and objective one hurts both white and American culture. I  also talk about Spring Breakers (great), and Girls (great and not great). Fighting the Default has been the main point of Mirror in many ways. Who knows what infamous commenter Max Oblivion will think. How Can White Americans Be Free? Measure, measure, measure. We learn to measure first. We spend our days measuring. And when we count we start at one. Every number after is in relation to one. Two is one after one. Three is two after one. And so on. Every child […]