“DiAngelo isn’t the first person to make a buck pushing tricked-up pseudo-intellectual horseshit as corporate wisdom, but she might be the first to do it selling Hitlerian race theory.”
If you want to find “fragility”, look no further than people who need and seek victim status. Among that group is concentrated the most pathetic and needful examples of humanity that have ever walked the earth.
The main concepts of our founding was
1) Our rights come from God
2) Individualism.
The left is the process of destroying this. I’m beginning to wonder if Khrushchev was right.
Some of the elite schools (Yale, Brown, etc.) were founded by slave traders and their families.
Why don't they ever talk about that?
>>The book’s most amazing passage concerns the story of Jackie Robinson:
>>The story of Jackie Robinson is a classic example of how whiteness obscures racism by rendering whites, white privilege, and racist institutions invisible. Robinson is often celebrated as the first African American to break the color line…
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>>While Robinson was certainly an amazing baseball player, this story line depicts him as racially special, a black man who broke the color line himself. The subtext is that Robinson finally had what it took to play with whites, as if no black athlete before him was strong enough to compete at that level. Imagine if instead, the story went something like this: “Jackie Robinson, the first black man whites allowed to play major-league baseball.”
Blurring the Color Line: How Cuban Baseball Players Led to the Racial Integration of Major League Baseball
This article was written by Stephen R. Keeney
This article was published in the The National Pastime: Baseball in the Sunshine State (Miami, 2016)
Rafael Almeida and Armando Marsans, who played for the Cincinnati Reds 36 years before Jackie Robinson came along, should be credited with crashing the color barrier.
—Felipe Alou
https://www.seamheads.com/NegroLgs/player.php?playerID=almeid001raf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armando_Marsans
Six years before Cincinnati, Marsans and Almeida played “Negro baseball” in the United States as 1905 members of the integrated All Cubans. Marsans also played Negro league baseball in 1923 for the Cuban Stars (Riley, 514).
>>Yet these ideas are taking America by storm. The movement that calls itself “antiracism” – I think it deserves that name a lot less than “pro-lifers” deserve theirs and am amazed journalists parrot it without question – is complete in its pessimism about race relations. It sees the human being as locked into one of three categories: members of oppressed groups, allies, and white oppressors.
If so-called “antiracists” don’t call out the antisemitism of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan, “antifa”, and BLM then their claims of being “antiracist” are a fraud.
#NotFragile
White fragility? Of course we’re *all* fragile...every person...every *being*...on earth.I’m not more,or less,fragile than any of the other 7 billion people on earth.
The writer of the article was often veering from unintelligible to boring.
This book sounds horrible, and I doubt seriously that it is #1 in sales without “some rich libtard” buying bulk.
Good article.
Mark
Matt Taibibi wrote this? Its the best article I have seen on this yet.
Just found this via Instapundit, read it and subscribed to his blog. This is just a great piece, thanks for posting it here. Heart him totally for say this may be the worst book ever written, pretty sure it makes the top five! The comments over there are great too. Plenty of libs have had it with this stuff. Look at the poor dame who got her life ruined by the WaPo, she’s a big old lib. Any of them with 1/2 a brain should know they’re not ‘safe’ and some actually see that this is wrong.
One commentor made the excellent point that if you can get fired for liking a Trump tweet, how on earth can we be expected to believe any polls?
Ping.
That's White Frageelay!
-PJ
No one among my ancestors (back to 1620) ever owned a slave, thus reducing my ‘fragility’. That said...
I am surprised today to learn for the first time that by 1860 there were thousands of black slave owners in the USA, both men and women, several of them exceedingly wealthy. Amazingly, one can Google “Listverse Top 10 Black Slave Owners” and be relieved to learn that any reparations burden you may have will be shared by descendants of very wealthy African-American slave owners.
Take #1...Anthony Johnson...The first black man to arrive in the Colonies who, by 1635, had gained his freedom by completing his indentured servitude, and became the first black man to own land by acquiring a 250-acre plantation where he was master over both black and white ‘servants’. But there’s more: He also became the first black slave owner when he, as Plaintiff, won the precedent-setting legal case that solidified the legality of slavery in America!!! You see, one of Mr. Johnson’s ‘servants’ claimed he was indentured and had completed his term. ‘Oh, no’, said Mr. Johnson, he was ‘indentured’ to me for life...and the Court sided with Mr. Johnson, thus making slavery (indentured servitude for life) legal in America until Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation!!!
Why is none of this taught in high schools today? Only Washington and Jefferson being slaveowners? Ask Joe Biden...(of course, it is true that none of the black slave owners have statues that could be torn down by angry, white anarchists).
“White fragility” is the leftist POC’s response to any negative reaction received when he does something offensive or racist against whites. It’s like the physical abuser that says his victim is a big crybaby.
In which case Adolf Hitler was correct in his vision but tactically inept in execution. Do these fools seriously understand what they are advocating.
If a race war did begin the snowflakes would not represent whitey. Those average Americans who are not emasculated would end up destroying the black supremacists.
Nothing shows fragility more than:
-"Safe Spaces" (They need a place to hide from challenges).
-"Censorship" (They refuse to debate their ideas and demand ALL opposing voices/views be silenced/removed).
-"Cancel Culture" (so fragile that they can't even handle images on pancake mix, nor do they bother to learn about it ).
Liberals are the most fragile of all.