White shaming

Promoting her book Me and White Supremacy, Layla Saad pays lipservice to the complexity of human experience noting the marginalisation of women, LGBTQ, the disabled and others (Canvas, July 4).

“Lip-service” because, after that, it’s wall-to-wall white evil as though it’s the only problem on the globe. Saad moves seamlessly from “white privilege” to “white supremacy” as though they’re the same; and forgets to mention the new supremacy, of the educated “woke” elite, which oppresses everyone.

Most important, she misdirects attention away from the behaviour of Black Lives Matter, Antifa and others dedicated to righteous violence. Gavan O’Farrell, Lower Hutt.