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How to cope with 'white fragility': Academic sells out her $60 workshops designed to improve Caucasi
Daily Mail UK ^ | August 18, 2016 | Liam Quinn

Posted on 08/18/2016 4:44:42 PM PDT by Scarpetta

FULL TITLE: How to cope with 'white fragility': Academic sells out her $60 workshops designed to improve Caucasians' 'low emotional tolerance for discussing racism'

An academic and author is offering courses for white people teaching them how to cope with their 'white fragility' - and tickets for the lectures have sold out.

The City of Seattle is offering the class through its Office of Arts and Culture, with Dr. Robin DiAngelo taking students through the course.

The workshops, which cost $60 to attend and had its first four-hour session on Wednesday night, focus on: 'the specific way that racism manifests through White Fragility and provides the perspectives and skills needed for white people to have more constructive cross-racial interactions'.

The Office of Arts and Culture also defines 'white fragility' as: 'the inability for white people to tolerate racial stress.'

'White people in the U.S. live in a racially insular social environment,' a description on its website reads.

'Because these racial perspectives are so rarely challenged within this environment, white people have not had to develop the stamina needed to tolerate racial stress.

'When white people are challenged in cross-racial interactions, White Fragility triggers a range of defensive moves including: argumentation, invalidation, silence, withdrawal and claims of being attacked and unsafe.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: blackkk; blackliesmatter; nea; whitefragility
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Read more: White Fragility with Robin DiAngelo

http://whitefragility.bpt.me/

1 posted on 08/18/2016 4:44:42 PM PDT by Scarpetta
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To: Scarpetta

No fragility in talking about racism here: The NAACP is a racist organization, the Congressional Black Caucus is a racist organization, and Black Lives Matter is a VERY racist organization.

So I’ll keep my money, thanks.


2 posted on 08/18/2016 4:47:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Scarpetta

In other words, why you shouldn’t fight back against racist slander and leftist demands to accept slavery status.

The bitch running this thing is pure evil.


3 posted on 08/18/2016 4:48:45 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Scarpetta

When they say “sell out”, how many people are they talking about?

10 or 500?


4 posted on 08/18/2016 4:49:05 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Scarpetta

Let me guess, if you argue with any claims, no matter how outrageous, that’s a symptom. If you shut up and don’t argue, that’s a symptom. I bet if you agree, that’s some sort of co-opting maneuver that is also a symptom, and in fact, there is no correct response to accusations of racism except abject apology followed by suicide.


5 posted on 08/18/2016 4:50:13 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (They aren't being radicalized; they're being activated.)
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To: ifinnegan

“Sell out” is the operative term.


6 posted on 08/18/2016 4:51:20 PM PDT by Scarpetta
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To: A_perfect_lady

How about answering, “So what! I don’t care!”

No matter what you say they’re going to brand you a racist, just agree and tell them you just don’t care!


7 posted on 08/18/2016 4:55:33 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Scarpetta

If “racism” has been reduced to a single attribute of skin “color” along a one dimensional brightness axis, there’s nothing to discuss. Everyone is neither black nor white.


8 posted on 08/18/2016 4:55:46 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: Scarpetta

Schlockmeister extraordinaire! PT Barnum was right.


9 posted on 08/18/2016 4:55:52 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: A_perfect_lady

Everything whitey does is either macro- or micro-aggression. Can’t move into the ‘hood - you’re gentrifying “their” neighborhoods. Can’t move outta the ‘hood - white flight is racist. There is absolutely no winning for melanin-challenged citizens.


10 posted on 08/18/2016 4:57:50 PM PDT by Scarpetta
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To: Reily

That’s actually where I am now. I do not care anymore. If someone calls me racist, I just shrug. Oh well. You bandy that word about enough, it loses its meaning.


11 posted on 08/18/2016 4:58:13 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (They aren't being radicalized; they're being activated.)
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To: Scarpetta

Uh huh. I need to part with 60 buckadingdongs to learn how to apologize for something I never did. I’ll pass, thanks.


12 posted on 08/18/2016 4:58:53 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Scarpetta

So we’re supposed to develop “a high emotional tolerance for discussing racism,” but we’re not allowed to use that two-syllable word that America’s indigenous urban people call each other fifteen times a minute?


13 posted on 08/18/2016 4:59:49 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Billthedrill

I wonder if Teach wears spiked heels, walks on the student’s bare backs, and beats them with a crop.


14 posted on 08/18/2016 5:00:58 PM PDT by Robwin
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To: Scarpetta

The course needed nowadays is White Appreciation 101. Does not the entire world benefit from white folk inventions & accomplishments? Who discovered almost all cures for disease? Invented cars, planes, trains, computers, submarines, radios, wireless tech, printing press, rocket ships, and on and on? How about a ‘thank you’?


15 posted on 08/18/2016 5:01:21 PM PDT by ransacked
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Caucasians' 'low emotional tolerance for discussing racism'

Does that include Hispanics?

I'm retired now so I don't know how much affirmative action hiring and promotion based on race is going on now days. Has it switched to gayness?

Anyway, this is how white people discussed racism in corporations in the past:

Who got the promotion?
Oh, that's what I thought.

16 posted on 08/18/2016 5:04:13 PM PDT by donna (No one should be allowed to become a citizen or even a resident if they support Sharia Law.)
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To: Scarpetta
Just saw this yesterday.

http://www.unz.com/isteve/the-worlds-most-important-graph/

Is that correct? 4 BILLION?

17 posted on 08/18/2016 5:06:05 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Scarpetta
White Fragility triggers a range of defensive moves including: argumentation, invalidation, silence, withdrawal and claims of being attacked and unsafe.

Which leaves only one possible, legitimate white response to any racial discussion:

"Yes, dear. No, dear. Whatever you say, dear."
18 posted on 08/18/2016 5:09:42 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There's no salvation in politics.)
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To: donna

Hispanics only count as white when determining numbers in prison populations.


19 posted on 08/18/2016 5:10:33 PM PDT by Scarpetta
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To: Scarpetta

I go along with Popeye:

I’m Popeye the Sailor Man, I’m Popeye the Sailor Man, I yam what’s I yam, And that’s all what’s I am, I’m Popeye the Sailor Man
I’m Popeye the Sailor Man, I’m Popeye the Sailor Man, I’m strong to the finich, ‘Cause I eats me spinach, I’m Popeye the Sailor Man
I’m one tough gazookus, Which hates all palookas, What ain’ts on the up and square, I biffs ‘em and buffs ‘em, An’ always out-roughs ‘em, An’ none of ‘em gets no-where
If anyone dares to risk my “fisk”, It’s “boff” an’ it’s “wham”, Un’erstan’, So keep “good behavor”, That’s your one life saver, With Popeye the Sailor Man


20 posted on 08/18/2016 5:12:02 PM PDT by JimSEA
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