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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The audacity of caucasity on this post!

"White affinity group" is a very commonly used term nationally, both in educational and employment settings. The outrage here suggests you all either don't read, don't care to be better, and/or do exactly what such a group would challenge you to stop doing.

As several have pointed out, public institutions use resources to support marginalized/underrepresented groups all. the. time. Is the problem here that whiteness is not being centered and exhalted? Because that's how the bulk of you sound.

Also, stop saying 'woke.'[/quote]

So language matters in one direction only?  Some people are rightfully allowed to be offended by skin-based insults, while it's open season on other groups?  This mindset is exactly that displayed in the SWS program description and is what is likely to undermine the program's presumable goals.[/quote]

No it’s white fragility by textbook definition and the faulty logic presented by the offended white folk on this thread is a tragically ironic example of why these initiatives are sorely needed. In all honesty, they basis of this work is pushing past the feelings of defensiveness and discomfort for the sake of growth. [b] It is quite known and discussed that many families will feel the way many of you are feeling. The goal of the work is to being forth those who are open and willing to push past that discomfort and learn something. This change is painfully and deeply rooted. This is century work and thank goodness for those who embark on it. [/b][/quote]

Being "discussed" does not make it scientific.  Being in a textbook does not make it factually correct, as our 20th century sorely shows.

That the recognition and remediation of unconscious bias entails discomfort is logical. But twisting that logic around to claim that anything goes as long as it causes defensiveness and discomfort is bollix. [/quote]

It’s only bollix if you don’t see the discomfort as *the entire point.* What PP is describing is a struggle session, and the whole point is to make the subjects feel distress and thereby strengthen the power of those conducting the struggle session, and send a clear message about conformity to those watching. It’s no accident that this happens at schools.

Some historical background:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-criticism_(Marxism–Leninism)#Soviet_Union

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struggle_session

I realize this sounds hyperbolic. To be clear, I don’t believe that the “white fragility” discourse has the same power structure as Soviet Russia or Maoist China. That would be an overblown accusation, obviously. But I do believe the underlying social dynamics are very, very similar, in that public confessions of shame are utilized in order to bring other people in line and reinforce an orthodoxy.

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This is what the Uyghurs are going through in China.  [/quote]

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