Posted on 01/19/2016 8:47:39 AM PST by Citizen Zed
White fragility refers to a range of defensive behaviors through which white people deflect conversations about race and racism in order to protect themselves from race-based stress. Because white people tend to live in environments where whiteness is both dominant and invisible, they grow accustomed to racial comfort, as a result of which even a small amount of racial stress becomes intolerable. This helps explain why talking about white supremacy can feel more painful to white people than white supremacy itself, why the ostensible "stifling" of debate can feel more pressing than the literal strangulation of Eric Garner and how "free speech" seems more important than black lives.
Needless to say, it requires an astounding degree of narcissism, ignorance and - yes - fragility to scan headlines detailing the daily, state-sanctioned slaughter of people of color and somehow conclude that speech is the real problem. White fragility weighs the minimal discomfort of being confronted with painful realities about race and racism against the literal death of black and brown bodies and decides that the latter matter less than white discomfort. Which is how we end up here, talking about speech on campus and reading a dozen iterations of the same editorial in which students describe - with utterly unintentional irony - how being called out by anti-racist activists makes them feel upset and hurts their feelings.
This leaves those of us committed to abolishing white supremacy in a double bind. To engage with this debate is to fall for a diversionary tactic in which we again center the conversation on white feelings. To refuse to engage grants the latter a monopoly on the airways, drowning out more vital issues in an ocean of white noise.
(Excerpt) Read more at dukechronicle.com ...
It has taken a generation of constant demonization to get the demographic majority of Europe and America to accept second class status.
The irony is that it was done in the name of fairness.
Now they are openly seeking greater privilege, hence the open hatred and bashing of the majority.
This article is about as racist as it gets.
Bennett is a racist.
“Because white people tend to live in environments where whiteness is both dominant and invisible, they grow accustomed to racial comfort, as a result of which even a small amount of racial stress becomes intolerable”
Ummm I live in a neighborhood in Manassas, VA which is a nice place to live and its quiet and peaceful, and I am a darker skinned person, I have no clue what this @sshole is talking about.
Man some people are just stupid.
That’s nice and all, but one thing you have to remember: africans, asians, indians, middle eastern, and american indians squabble and fight amongst themselves as tribal-feudal societies have for eons.
Caucasians conquer and destroy entire continents. The thinking is to knock them ALL down, and pick which ones you want to survive.
You may not like it, but it’s true. At this time though, a certain middle eastern religion is challenging that reign.
What happens today will dictate how the balance of power will shift over the next thousand years, just like it has over the last thousand years.
Biting the hand that gives them their food stamps is not smart.
Is it ‘black fragility’ that prevents them from addressing these issues in their own community...?
WHAT IF ALL BLACKS SUDDENLY LEFT AMERICA
(THEY ARE 12.1% OF THE TOTAL US POPULATION):
The prison population would go down by 39.2%
There would be 54.3% less gang members
Obesity percentage would drop 11.4%
Average IQ would go up 7.1 points putting us 3rd in the world and tied with Japan
Average SAT scores would go up almost 100 pts (98.8 pts)
Average ACT scores would go up 6.4 pts
AIDS and HIV would go down by 68.6%
Chlamydia cases would go down 57.3%
Gonorrhea would go down 79.1%
Syphilis would go down 68.7%
The average income for Americans would go up over 26,000 dollars a year
Amount of people in poverty would drop 36.3%
Homelessness would go down 67.1%
Welfare recipients would go down by 50.1%
DEMOCRATS WOULD LOSE 70.1% OF THEIR VOTING BASE
.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States
A majority of criminal defense attorneys would have to find another line of work.
Duke University: the Southern Harvard wannabes
The only good thing about it is the basketball team
The state does not sanction negroes murdering negroes. What's the negro on negro murder count for 2016 in Chicago?
The hand that gives them their EBT cards, subsidized housing, free medical care, and other gibsmedat should form a fist, punch them in the face, and tell them to get off their asses and work.
If the Hood-rats and the ones who cannot seem to pull their head out of their @ss want to go then I say let em, they are useless.
Some of us got a whole storeroom of defensives behavior saved up.
Another prostrate white boy.
“Fra-Gee-Lay” must be Italian.
OK, I see the Chupacabra on his shoulder, but where does he keep his pet gerbil?
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