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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]

There can be both systematic racism AND personal responsibility for committing crimes, for goodness sakes. No one is saying that someone subject to systemic racism has no choice but to commit crimes.  The difference is that if you don't recognize systemic racism, you look at differences in crime rates and decide that black people people must be more prone to crime, whereas if you acknowledge systemic racism you understand that there are broader trends that shape people's lives in different ways and it has nothing to do with black people being inherently violent or crime-prone or otherwise fundamentally different from white people.[/quote]

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