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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. [b]The concept of white fragility is not racist[/b]. 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.

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ok, it's not a racist theory, sound like the start of a good argument 
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[b]Many white people are pretty darn fragile when it comes to any discussion of race[/b]. 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.[b] Everything in the society is built to protect white comfort.[/b] [/quote]

and you follow it up with a generalization based on race and a flat out racist assertion. [/quote]

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