 Both considered "The White Negro" a "macho folly" that could not be reconciled with the "tenderheartedness" of the Beat perspective.Ginsberg saw no Dostoyevskian hero in Mailer's violent Hipster.Several prominent critics, such as James Baldwin, chided Mailer publicly for their perception that, with "The White Negro", he was openly aping lesser writers such as Jack Kerouac in order to jump on the bandwagon of moody, meandering, faux-thrill-seeking Beatniks.