Maybe this is common knoweledge that I’m missing, but I find this review glossing over central points. How is “white supremacy” defined? How about “whiteness”? I cannot imagine the book didn’t spend some chapters defining those phenomena and, more importantly, proving their existence and exemplifying them.
We must abandon our pretensions to “individualism” and “objectivity” (two other ostensible pillars of whiteness) and acknowledge instead that we are who we are because we are white, and that what we take to be objective knowledge is actually a peculiarly white perspective.
Pet theory demands we radically change the way we see the world. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Where is it?
I have a different answer to this than what has been given so far :
It’s a question of implicit conventions. The king’s challenge follows and mimics the jester’s challenge. In the jester’s challenge, the jester makes a statement about the truth value of the inscriptions on the boxes. By doing this, he sets the precedent that the inscriptions on the boxes are part of the game and do not engage the honesty of the game maker. The inscriptions can be true of false, and it’s part of the challenge to guess what is each one. Only the jester’s own words engage his honesty. If he lied, the challenge would be rigged.
The king mimics the jester’s setup, but makes no statement about the truth value of the inscriptions on the boxes. That difference should have sounded suspicious to the jester. He should have asked the king if the statements were logical. The king could have lied, but at that point if the king was ready to lie then he’d probably kill the jester even if he found the key.