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You did not answer my question. In fact, you seem to have gone way out your way not to answer it. [b]And your emotional need to attach an inflammatory name[/b] ("white fragility") to the banal notion that people get defensive [b]does not speak well of you[/b].

I asked you before to "please be more careful with your accusations". You clearly ignored that reasonable request. First, I did not "to try to explain away experiences like the Uber experience" which I specifically described as a "shitty" thing to happen to a kid. I simply tried to dig deeper into the issue using a "thought experiment" so that we could properly characterize it. [b]Somehow this went over your head.[/b] Second, you accused me of "denying that life is easier for white people" which I never did. In fact, I explicitly stated that "I don't deny racism or its history." Of course life is easier when, for example, you are discriminated against less often as in the case with white people. [b]Duh![/b]

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DP: PP made a perfectly reasonable reply.  Your telling her to “calm down” and “take a breath” — appropriately enough — is another rude approach to trying to diminish someone you are debating rather than responding to the substance that of what she said.

And what foes this have to do with HFA anyway?[/quote]

The bolded above strikes you as perfectly reasonable?  Really?  It seems out of control rude and aggressive to me.  Hence my sincere suggestion to calm down.  Guess we're going to have to agree to disagree. [/quote]

You twice falsely accused me, and yeah [b]I am a bit pissed about it[/b]. Let's recap:

In your original post you said: [i]The fact that you deny it exists suggests to me that you haven't engaged in many honest conversations about race...[/i] How is that not an accusation? I responded by carefully refuting it and asking you to "please be more careful with your accusations."

In your next post, you stated: [i]Denying that life is easier for white people (and to a lesser extent for Asians and Latinos) is [b]unhelpful, inaccurate, and alienates people of goodwill[/b]. [/i] You copied the [b]bolded text[/b] verbatim from my earlier post in some lame attempt at a gotcha. And what, now you are saying that denial accusation was not aimed at me? Yeah right.

I will not respond to any more of your posts.[/quote]

PP, this series of posts really kinda makes the point about white fragility.  You feel "accused" when I disagree with you.  You quote something I wrote, but put ellipses in place of the key words --- [i]The fact that you deny it exists suggests to me that you haven't engaged in many honest conversations about race [b]with racists[/b].[/i]  I.e., unlike me, maybe you are fortunate enough to spend all your time around open minded and enlightened people.  The fact that that your read this as an accusation and then had to omit the key words is, to me, really telling.

You assert that I'm trying to shut down conversation, which I take as you disagreeing with me.  I assert that you are denying something important, I and I'm [b]accusing[/b] you?  You are sarcastic, and that's cool.  I'm sarcastic, and you're [b]pissed[/b]?

Likewise, I write that when [b]I[/b] feel tempted to explain away events like those [b]I experienced[/b], I realize that [b]I have[/b] some white fragility.  Again, you respond that [b]you[/b] feel accused of something.

I'd really urge you to examine this defensiveness.  You seem to be on a hair trigger for feeling accused.  Accused of what?

Also, you acknowledge that racism exists, and that you suffer from it the least of any demographic, but you are compelled to argue against the notion of belonging to a privileged group.  Why is that?

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