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re: Liberal journalist Glen Greenwald with some good tweets on "White Fragility" book
Posted on 6/29/20 at 8:26 pm to tiggerthetooth
Posted on 6/29/20 at 8:26 pm to tiggerthetooth
Matt Taibbi destroyed it yesterday
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DiAngelo isn’t the first person to make a buck pushing tricked-up pseudo-intellectual horseshite as corporate wisdom, but she might be the first to do it selling Hitlerian race theory. White Fragility has a simple message: there is no such thing as a universal human experience, and we are defined not by our individual personalities or moral choices, but only by our racial category.
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The book’s most amazing passage concerns the story of Jackie Robinson:
The story of Jackie Robinson is a classic example of how whiteness obscures racism by rendering whites, white privilege, and racist institutions invisible. Robinson is often celebrated as the first African American to break the color line…
While Robinson was certainly an amazing baseball player, this story line depicts him as racially special, a black man who broke the color line himself. The subtext is that Robinson finally had what it took to play with whites, as if no black athlete before him was strong enough to compete at that level. Imagine if instead, the story went something like this: “Jackie Robinson, the first black man whites allowed to play major-league baseball.”
There is not a single baseball fan anywhere – literally not one, except perhaps Robin DiAngelo, I guess – who believes Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier because he “finally had what it took to play with whites.” Everyone familiar with this story understands that Robinson had to be exceptional, both as a player and as a human being, to confront the racist institution known as Major League Baseball. His story has always been understood as a complex, long-developing political tale about overcoming violent systemic oppression. For DiAngelo to suggest history should re-cast Robinson as “the first black man whites allowed to play major league baseball” is grotesque and profoundly belittling.
Posted on 6/29/20 at 8:31 pm to Pettifogger
Ben Shapiro also had a good take on it. Apparently he read it last week.
Ben Shapiro talks " White fragility"
Ben Shapiro talks " White fragility"
Posted on 6/29/20 at 9:01 pm to Pettifogger
These are the same people that say it's preposterous that the left is attempting to rewrite history
Posted on 6/29/20 at 9:06 pm to Pettifogger
Just read that. Was it posted here or should I post it?
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