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Liberal journalist Glen Greenwald with some good tweets on "White Fragility" book
Posted on 6/29/20 at 8:24 pm
Posted on 6/29/20 at 8:24 pm
For those that don't know "White Fragility" is basically like a modern bible for the leftist intersectionalist doctrine. Its without a doubt a cult-tier book.
This post was edited on 6/29/20 at 8:27 pm
Posted on 6/29/20 at 8:25 pm to tiggerthetooth
ETA: Oh, I thought you were going to post some tweets.
This post was edited on 6/29/20 at 8:26 pm
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 8:42 pm to tiggerthetooth
Glenn Greenwald offers a more effective critique of the American left than 95% of those on the right. I have always really liked him.
Posted on 6/29/20 at 8:47 pm to SCLibertarian
let's not pretend that all of the sudden Glenn Greenwald is some White Knight(tongue in cheek pun intended). The very fact that he is standing up against this book tells you how demented and left leaning it is
Posted on 6/29/20 at 8:51 pm to jrobic4
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let's not pretend that all of the sudden Glenn Greenwald is some White Knight(tongue in cheek pun intended). The very fact that he is standing up against this book tells you how demented and left leaning it is
Yes that was addressed in the OP and kind of the point of the thread.
Hell it was noted in the thread title
This post was edited on 6/29/20 at 8:52 pm
Posted on 6/29/20 at 8:54 pm to jrobic4
Greenwald was writing about the Deep State when Republicans were voting for Bush and his Uniparty allies. He has defended Wikileaks, published Snowden's leaks, abhors the surveillance state and has been a critic of the Russia hoax and the Special Counsel since they began. He is more of an ally on many issues than the GOPe.
Posted on 6/29/20 at 8:58 pm to tiggerthetooth
Multiculturalism is a failure, it's time to accept that.
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 9:05 pm to jrobic4
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let's not pretend that all of the sudden Glenn Greenwald is some White Knight(tongue in cheek pun intended). The very fact that he is standing up against this book tells you how demented and left leaning it is
If all you see is the right/left paradigm, you are misguided my friend.
Glenwald believes in smart and efficient government. His articles are eloquent and as someone mentioned, he was for Snowden, against police state, etc. He’s “left”, but to the “right” of Romney, McCain, Graham, et al.
Posted on 6/29/20 at 9:06 pm to tiggerthetooth
Taibbi absolutely destroyed it:
LINK
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A core principle of the academic movement that shot through elite schools in America since the early nineties was the view that individual rights, humanism, and the democratic process are all just stalking-horses for white supremacy. The concept, as articulated in books like former corporate consultant Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility (Amazon’s #1 seller!) reduces everything, even the smallest and most innocent human interactions, to racial power contests.
It’s been mind-boggling to watch White Fragility celebrated in recent weeks. When it surged past a Hunger Games book on bestseller lists, USA Today cheered, “American readers are more interested in combatting racism than in literary escapism.” When DiAngelo appeared on The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon gushed, “I know… everyone wants to talk to you right now!” White Fragility has been pitched as an uncontroversial road-map for fighting racism, at a time when after the murder of George Floyd Americans are suddenly (and appropriately) interested in doing just that. Except this isn’t a straightforward book about examining one’s own prejudices. Have the people hyping this impressively crazy book actually read it?
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This notion that color-blindness is itself racist, one of the main themes of White Fragility, could have amazing consequences. In researching I Can’t Breathe, I met civil rights activists who recounted decades of struggle to remove race from the law. I heard stories of lawyers who were physically threatened for years places like rural Arkansas just for trying to end explicit hiring and housing discrimination and other remnants of Jim Crow. Last week, an Oregon County casually exempted “people of color who have heightened concerns about racial profiling” from a Covid-19 related mask order. Who thinks creating different laws for different racial categories is going to end well? When has it ever?
At a time of catastrophe and national despair, when conservative nationalism is on the rise and violent confrontation on the streets is becoming commonplace, it’s extremely suspicious that the books politicians, the press, university administrators, and corporate consultants alike are asking us to read are urging us to put race even more at the center of our identities, and fetishize the unbridgeable nature of our differences. Meanwhile books like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird, which are both beautiful and actually anti-racist, have been banned, for containing the “N-word.” (White Fragility contains it too, by the way). It’s almost like someone thinks there’s a benefit to keeping people divided.
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Posted on 6/29/20 at 9:06 pm to Pettifogger
Just read that. Was it posted here or should I post it?
Posted on 6/29/20 at 9:08 pm to jrobic4
You're uninformed
Greenwald is unbiased and has always been unbiased.
Greenwald is unbiased and has always been unbiased.
Posted on 6/29/20 at 9:11 pm to tiggerthetooth
Posted on 6/29/20 at 9:13 pm to tiggerthetooth
quote:Hard pass.
White Fragility
Posted on 6/29/20 at 9:14 pm to tiggerthetooth
Without having read it, I imagine it’s filled with misconstrued facts and data that isn’t representative.
Posted on 6/29/20 at 9:19 pm to tiggerthetooth
I want to believe the ship is SLOWLY starting to turn. It takes a while for an aircraft carrier to turn.
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