A Sociologist Examines the “White Fragility” That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism
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It's because whites in this country have had their asses coddled and kissed for years now. It's complicated, but it's also very very simple.
I got mad reading this at how accurate it is...The amount of white guilt I see working in software is so absurd, yet the same people in my office turn right around and go off on this Peter Thiel technolibertarian rambling about whatever stupid thing they read off reddit that day and I die a little more inside.
Nobody ever wants to just sit down, shut up, learn them some empathy and get the hell out of the way.
look at you. your whole m.o. is to go through life wanting to make sure white folks are as comfortable as possible and avoiding anything that could upset these fragile fukks.
did you say anything to those judges who were bragging about how they'll just corrupt the spirit of a law that's meant to help the poor, largely minorities, but will most likely fail to do so at levels they were hoping for because of judges like that ones you "brunched" with? nah, you were there making them to feel comfortable that their behavior is perfectly fine because they aren't racists, just self-preservationists.
The funny thing is, he's not some ambiguous sunken place negro either, he's fully cognitive.
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I don't even like the term "white fragility", because them being shocked/saddened/appaled by the discussion of the topic of racism (when they're not being consciously blind to it) itself comes from a position of power. They can afford not to care about racism, because they aren't affected by it. This goes also for most "progressives" and whatnot, who just by their bieng white can read/inform themselves all they want about racism, but whose structural power shields them from it. Hell that's even the case for some advantaged Black people who may not as exposed to racism than less priviledged...until they get their wake-up call.
So the term itself sounds problematic to me. I know it has a sense of "mocking" such "fragility" but in some twisted it compounds the idea of the "innocent white" who "just never thought about it". Well, if you never thought about it, that's white privilege, which comes from white supremacy, which is anything but "fragile".
Also, it must be known that tears and emotions can also be political. Showing tears and whatnot will almost automatically bring empathy and sympathy, and now all of a sudden whoever is talking about racism might be the bad guy who'se making a "fragile" white person cry or feel "uncomfortable".
So the term itself sounds problematic to me. I know it has a sense of "mocking" such "fragility" but in some twisted it compounds the idea of the "innocent white" who "just never thought about it". Well, if you never thought about it, that's white privilege, which comes from white supremacy, which is anything but "fragile".
Also, it must be known that tears and emotions can also be political. Showing tears and whatnot will almost automatically bring empathy and sympathy, and now all of a sudden whoever is talking about racism might be the bad guy who'se making a "fragile" white person cry or feel "uncomfortable".
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