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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow. So much white fragility. AKA snowflakes.

Put on your big girl panties and read the book. You won’t melt. 
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It’s not the reading it, it’s the discussing such a loaded topic with coworkers that’s the problem. Do you honestly not see how a white person who disagrees with the book’s premise and says so during the discussion, could be placing themselves in a very precarious situation? [/quote]

[b]If someone isn’t willing to read a book with an open mind and discuss on any level (even if they disagree), then that person isn’t intellectually curious enough to be in a teaching position. [/b]

I’d also be curious why they “disagree with the premise”.
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Yup, perfect.

Oh really?  What would you say about making The Bell Curve a required reading and discussion, and labeling anyone who balks at it “not open minded and intellectually curious” [/quote]

Nailed it, PP.[/quote][/quote]

I’d throw in the FBI violent crime statistics for good measure. Let’s really discuss race and hold nothing back. [/quote]

Just more evidence of the dire effects of systemic racism. 
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So how is "systemic racism made me to it" any different from "the devil made me do it?"
Committing crimes is a dire effect of systemic racism? Are our expectations that low? How is that not itself a racist assumption to claim that someone of a certain race who has been a victim of systemic racism has no choice but to commit crime? Really? There is no agency or personal responsibility in this at all to do the law-abiding thing? Mind boggling. And insulting.[/quote]

Well, to start, the devil really isn’t a thing. And systemic racism is.

Why do you think there is a disparity in crime statistics? 
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