Posted on 07/15/2021 3:30:42 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Evidence is mounting that “wokeness” is a creation of abnormally anxious and prejudiced white women who feel that elaborate rituals are necessary to interact with people of other races — something that most people, who simply treat them as peers, have no need for.
Matt Taibbi made such a case about Robin DiAngelo this month, highlighting a passage from the “White Fragility” author’s latest book in which she describes not knowing what to do when having dinner with a black person. She compensates by spouting racial and political bromides in an attempt to prove that she wasn’t racist, instead of simply enjoying a dinner with a potential friend.
But there is an entire class of timid white women who have made a profession out of instructing others in racial matters. And there is an unmistakable pattern suggesting that the racial tensions they sense everywhere are projection — that they are exceptionally sheltered, fragile people who have hang-ups about race and make the faulty assumption that others do, too. In short, what has spawned an industry imposing speech codes and bizarre rituals on society at large might be better worked out by the handful of people it affects in a therapist’s office.
Debby Irving has been on the paid race-relations speech circuit since before “White Privilege,” writing a book in 2014 called “Waking Up White.” Both women draw from the same influences, such as 1980s college academic Peggy McIntosh. Irving has 75 speaking dates this year, bringing her expertise from places like the Martha’s Vineyard Nonprofit Collaborative to the Blue Cross Blue Shield Blues Alliance to the Heuvelton School District.
Here — as part of an occasional Daily Wire series called “We Read It So You Don’t Have To” examining leftist influencers through the words of their own books....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailywire.com ...
I think in order to help these women, they should be invited to speak on wokeness to a what they believe will be a white, upper crust liberal audience when in reality it is a mixer cocktail party full of rednecks, biker dudes, and non-white Trump supporters.
Bkmrk
“Robin DiAngelo describes not knowing what to do when having dinner with a black person.”
How is it possible for someone to get to adulthood without ever having had dinner with a black person?
But there is an entire class of timid white women who have made a profession out of instructing others in racial matters. And there is an unmistakable pattern suggesting that the racial tensions they sense everywhere are projection - that they are exceptionally sheltered, fragile people who have hang-ups about race and make the faulty assumption that others do, too. In short, what has spawned an industry imposing speech codes and bizarre rituals on society at large might be better worked out by the handful of people it affects in a therapist’s office.
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Blackface Lives Matter
I have a black friend who was unhappy that white woman grab their purse when he walks by their shopping cart in a store. I told him it happens to me sometimes when I walk by some women. It didn’t matter, he thought it was racist.
Same situation applies to women in certain circumstances, such as when waiters assume the man is paying.
Anyone can look for ways to be offended if they so desire.
Years ago, when I was in grad school, a young professor got a number of students to enroll in her classes her first semester there because 1) the classes sounded interesting to them, 2) the classes fit their schedule well, and 3) she sounded fun because her first name was a “fun” first name, like Tiffany.
They didn’t know she was black. Word hadn’t gotten around.
A lot of these students came from small towns and never really did talk to black person in their lives. They weren’t really prejudiced, or greatly nervous, just kind of uncomfortable and unsure.
After sitting through the first class, most of them decided to stick with the class because she seemed so down to earth and funny, which she was.
And they spoke to the black kids in the class and took more classes with her, which naturally attracted black students, whom the white students talked to and hung out with after class.
Ironically, she was the most conservative professor in the department.
And the white professors forced her out.
“Robin DiAngelo describes not knowing what to do when having dinner with a black person.”
Aren’t they supposed to stay in their own neighborhoods? How could anybody expect one to be prepared for such a situation?
NORTHERN liberals really, really tick me off. And I’m from the North.
What a weird woman. She’s all kinds of screwed up and projecting onto others :
“ She soon realized that there was one set of social codes she’d never been taught: How to interact with such a foreign group. When she was around “people of color,” she was like a “bull in a china shop.” She got “so jumpy when talking to a person of color.” Dealing with minorities was so strange that she had a name for it: the “zap,” similar to a dog running into an invisible fence..
She compensates by spouting racial and political bromides in an attempt to prove that she wasn’t racist, instead of simply enjoying a dinner with a potential friend.
Likely more than the average person, she was neurotic, oriented around rules and social conventions, and filled with racist thoughts.
Eventually, she had a revelation: Her racism wasn’t her fault! It was America’s.
When she had children of her own, there were minorities in the school, so she joined “diversity committees.” But “the persistent worrying about doing or saying something wrong perplexed me.”
She learned that some of the attributes of “white culture” were “defensiveness” and valuing “facts” rather than “intuition.” That was her!
When she saw herself in the mirror, she “jumped back in horror. There in the mirror were two bright blue eyes set against dead-fish white skin and unkempt hair the color of the sun… A montage of scary white faces streamed in opaquely over my own. First Hitler, they Yul Brynner in Westworld, and then a stream of white men in business suits.”
How do people like her explain all the interracial marriages that are all around us?
Absolutely. Recently a racist black woman tried to destroy my daughter and another kid that work in retail in a public Facebook post.
In reality and from video evidence, it was all BS and the worst this racist black bitty experienced was poor customer service during a busy time, right before closing. I’m still angry about it.
I’d pay good money to watch that!
Sounds entirely likely.
I’m a super lurker. Have been since mostly the beginning. It is my opinion that this is one of the most interesting and important articles that has been posted these many years. Bravo!
Wow. Thanks.
Out of the so many articles I post, I wouldn’t think this one would make that list.
But you never know what will strike a cord with people.
My local bar is a mix of “liberals” and conservatives. A few years ago, a black man who was not a regular showed up and - among the liberals - there was a sudden and obvious change. They began talking to this stranger like he was a long-lost friend, putting him on the spot, making him the center of attention, and I could see he was uncomfortable. I never saw him again.
Indeed! I find this subject to be among the most interesting and compelling of the recent crop of dramatic social change/disruption strategies. We are truly living through a historical happening and I’ve no idea how or what will come of it, but wow, this is some serious social upheaval-level stuff, and I am grateful for the perspective that highlights, I believe properly, the neurosis and even insanity, that is behind the woke movement, and this author, in particular.
Excellent point. She’s in a neurotic class of her own. And is projecting. I’m not tip toing around anyone the same as I don’t expect anyone to tip toe around me. My only code is the golden rule. It is applied equally. Not equitably.
Don't try to confer about how much the tip should be.
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