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.
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Baloney.
Paying to go on guilt trip...how idiotic!
Sshhh...liberals want to keep everybody clueless!
Sorry, spent all my time developing the stamina to get and keep a job. Didn't have time to worry about racial stress.
Paying money to hear that you’re evil for being white? What bunch of dumb ass white uncle toms.
Here’s how to save sixty bucks and combat white fragility.
If someone says you’re a racist, say “So what?”.
$60. let’s see a workshop on how to feel bad about myself or two 100 round trips to the range to feel good about myself. tough choice.
What they mean is whites have to be educated to flagellate themselves in public for being white and never to object when the New Black Panthers or Al Sharpton say yet another preposterous thing about race. Just nod and agree.
On the last census, the census taker asked me what race I was (BTW my ethnicity is half Scots,half Polish ). I answered “hoo-mon”. Perfect Ferengi pronunciation. I got a strange look, upon which I tried to introduce her to the Rules of Acquisition. She ran away. She did not have the lobes for business.
I had to look up Ferengi and Rules of Acquisition.
I never watched even one episode of Star Trek although my sons did.
We learn something every day. :-)
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If whitey quits feeding them and giving them aid, that line will nosedive like a lead balloon.
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