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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, honestly as others have pointed out, "white fragility" as a concept is both racist towards BIPOC (infantilizing and dehumanizing, see, e.g., John McWhorter) and racist towards white people - so I wouldn't give any credence to the notion that you don't have a right to respond critically to a piece of scholarship that you believe is based on flawed data. But then again, if you do it, keep surgical - they didn't understand the data, and thus, they misrepresented the data. [/quote]

Disagree. The concept of white fragility is not racist. Also, John McWhorter does not speak for all BIPOC. The fact that you point out one Black academic with a non mainstream view as proof just shows you falling into the trite racist trope of letting one person's voice speak for all people of their race.

Many white people are pretty darn fragile when it comes to any discussion of race. We have reached a place in society where being called a racist is considered (by whites) worse than the actual impact of the racist behavior (on a BIPOC). This is part of white fragility. Everything in the society is built to protect white comfort. [/quote]

Huh? Columbia is not mainstream? Nutty. White fragility in practice in large measure is about misogyny -vilifying and silencing woman white or otherwise. Everything is society (including AA society) is about controlling and silencing women - and the AA and the “submit to husband”  messaging in parts of the black church is just one example. I don’t want that blood on my hands, either. [/quote]

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