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re: White fragility is the new popular word
Posted on 3/17/15 at 11:56 am to CP3LSU25
Posted on 3/17/15 at 11:56 am to CP3LSU25
Let me help the OP out and drive down that click count;
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Why White People Freak Out When They're Called Out About Race
'White fragility' is a defensive response to real conversations about race.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one.
Last year, a white male Princeton undergraduate was asked by a classmate to “check his privilege.” Offended by this suggestion, he shot off a 1,300-word essay to the Tory, a right-wing campus newspaper.In it, he wrote about his grandfather who fled the Nazis to Siberia, his grandmother who survived a concentration camp in Germany, about the humble wicker basket business they started in America. He railed against his classmates for “diminishing everything [he’d] accomplished, all the hard work [he’d] done.”
His missive was reprinted by Time. He was interviewed by the New York Times and appeared on Fox News. He became a darling of white conservatives across the country.
What he did not do, at any point, was consider whether being white and male might have given him—if not his ancestors—some advantage in achieving incredible success in America. He did not, in other words, check his privilege.
To Robin DiAngelo, professor of multicutural education at Westfield State University and author of What Does it Mean to Be White? Developing White Racial Literacy, Tal Fortgang’s essay—indignant, defensive, beside-the-point, somehow both self-pitying and self-aggrandizing—followed a familiar script. As an anti-racist educator for more than two decades, DiAngelo has heard versions of it recited hundreds of times by white men and women in her workshops.
She’s heard it so many times, in fact, that she came up with a term for it: "white fragility," which she defined in a 2011 journal article as “a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves. These moves include outward display of emotions such as anger, fear and guilt, and behaviors such as argumentation, silence and leaving the stress-inducing situation.”
When the Black Lives Matter movement marched in the streets, holding up traffic, disrupting commerce, and refusing to allow "normal life" to resume—insofar as normalcy means a system that permits police and vigilantes to murder black men and women with impunity—white people found themselves in tense conversations online, with friends and in the media about privilege, white supremacy and racism. You could say white fragility was at an all-time high.
I spoke with DiAngelo about how to deal with all the fragile white people, and why it’s worth doing so.
Posted on 3/17/15 at 11:57 am to TRMM
quote:So much boom.
White Privilege (Noun): being held responsible for the acts of your ancestors by people who will not accept responsibility for the acts of their own children.
Posted on 3/17/15 at 11:58 am to Wolfhound45
Posted on 3/17/15 at 11:58 am to CP3LSU25
I read it, and Jesus that guy was insufferable. The air of superiority and self-attributed enlightenment made me nauseous.
Posted on 3/17/15 at 11:59 am to Fearthehat0307
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Klan rally, my house, 7 pm
let's do this
I'm black, but I hate all people and I will like to join your group.
Posted on 3/17/15 at 12:00 pm to CP3LSU25
Never heard it. I know plenty of whites who are anything but fragile.
But then there's you guys...
But then there's you guys...
Posted on 3/17/15 at 12:01 pm to CP3LSU25
White privilege is knowing I should probably not rent 24 inch rims and that I'm better off maintaining some financial stability before I start a family.
Posted on 3/17/15 at 12:03 pm to CP3LSU25
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What do you think about all of this?
Sounds about right.
Posted on 3/17/15 at 12:05 pm to Moustache
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"check your privilege".
It just baffles me how every other race has been through some period of struggle (jews, irish, italians, asians,etc) but they manage to get their shite together except for the blacks.
The Jews? Name just one thing they've persevered through.
Posted on 3/17/15 at 12:07 pm to biglego
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The Jews? Name just one thing they've persevered through.
The food. I can appreciate decent deli sometimes, but let's face it, their cuisine is not all that.
Posted on 3/17/15 at 12:07 pm to CP3LSU25
Ha. I don't freak out, I give it right back to them and guess what? They actually show me some damn respect when I do it.
Posted on 3/17/15 at 12:10 pm to Team Vote
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I read it, and Jesus that guy was insufferable. The air of superiority and self-attributed enlightenment made me nauseous.
Yeah, I think these people do this to get their 15 minutes. Ignore them and they'll do something even more ridiculous worth laughing at.
Posted on 3/17/15 at 12:10 pm to Mo Jeaux
A world without bacon, oysters, and crawfish would be difficult to survive and yet the Jews did.
Posted on 3/17/15 at 12:10 pm to Wolfhound45
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a system that permits police and vigilantes to murder black men and women with impunity
This sounds horrible. Where is this happening?
Posted on 3/17/15 at 12:11 pm to biglego
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A world without bacon, oysters, and crawfish would be difficult to survive and yet the Jews did.
Have an upvote.
Posted on 3/17/15 at 12:11 pm to CP3LSU25
"black denial" should be a thing.
Posted on 3/17/15 at 12:12 pm to hillcountrywanderer
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"black denial" should be a thing.
That's fair.
Posted on 3/17/15 at 12:18 pm to CP3LSU25
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Why White People Freak Out When They're Called Out About Race
Answer: Because social media and mainstream news are on a fricking witchhunt - say one thing wrong or anything that can be twisted, and your career and reputation are over. There's no coming back from it anymore. Just stay away from the conversation at all costs now. Don't say a fricking word about it to anyone because you've got white people so full of liberal semen and desperate for views on their bullshite blog that they'll call you out on it even if its just a harmless statement so that they can be seen as some champion of social justice.
This post was edited on 3/17/15 at 12:21 pm
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