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[quote=Anonymous][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]

You don't understand the difference between racism and prejudice. When a person in power (in this country that typically means a white person), acts on their prejudices and causes harm to a BIPOC because of their prejudiced beliefs, that is racism (ex: hiring manager not interviewing LaQuanda Washington even though she's got a great resume, but giving an interview to Kelsey O'Connor and Kate Smith). If LaQuanda finds out about it and calls Kelsey or Kate a white b"tch, that is prejudice. LaQuanda has no power in the situation, so her prejudiced action does not cause harm in the same way that the racist action of the hiring manager does.

You can try to dismiss this all day every day, but each volley back only proves the point that white people are fragile AF and can't take being checked. God bless. [/quote]

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