Posted on 11/29/2018 10:35:34 AM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
Business is booming for Robin DiAngelo, a retired sociologist and the author of White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism. Since resigning from Westfield State University three years ago, DiAngelo has become a full-time “writer and presenter.” What she writes about is the pathological inability of white people to understand their passive complicity in America’s “white supremacist culture,” and whom she presents it to is white people looking for lessons in how to overcome it. “Now breathe,” she instructs her readers. “I am not saying that you are immoral. If you can remain open as I lay out my argument” — here, the argument that she can credibly judge your racism by virtue of your whiteness even if she has never met you — “it should soon begin to make sense.” Like therapy, it doesn’t always go over well: DiAngelo recounts a woman’s bristling after being told that her comments “invalidated” another person’s “experience as a black man.” But that is just white fragility in action.
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I think a lot of far left white liberals will face the Joe Crowley-Michael Capuano treatment.
“POC” (People of Color) will outnumber them in the race stuff and they will be have to take orders from them.
White Fragility?
Dayum. These idiots keep coming up with new and different descriptors that are useless and meaningless all the time.
Sorry sweetheart. There is nothing fragile about my whiteness.
The payout is enourmous. All the graft a two trillion dollar budget will bear.
It is, essentially a huge, organized, con and extortion racket.
As far as I’m concerned official racism came to an end when black Americans were finally permitted to eat at any lunch counter or drink from any water fountain they chose.
Aside from that, you can’t regulate what’s in the hearts of 330 million people.
it’s happening here in Minnesota - in particular, the ultra-left enclave of Minneapolis.
Back in November, Peter McLaughlin, a very liberal white guy and member of the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners for the last 24 years was ousted by a black woman who only had marginal community involvement.
McLaughlin’s crime? Sexual harassment? No. Financial improprieties? No.
He was white and the extreme left fringe element in the Minneapolis Democrat party decided he should be replaced with a person of color. They decided that skin color was the pre-eminent issue in this white-leaning district.
White Liberals are self-hating and susceptible to guilt trips. MOST have enough money to be more interested in LOOKING like they care about liberal pet causes than they are in actually doing any work for these causes.
Every noble social cause ever, from suffrage/feminism, to civil rights, to environmental protection, got co-opted first into politics, and then into a racket.
Yep.
This will continue on and on——identity politics will be the core dish.
They are gay or wiccans or long haired dope smokers or generally loathe Christians.
All of my adult working life I have had to deal with affirmative action on race and gender.
Pretty accurate synopsis of the new trend toward “woke” white liberals. It’s a quasi-religious movement, where white people are born guilty by virtue of their ancestry, but they can absolve themselves by acknowledging it and mouthing various platitudes.
Everything
60’s envy + atheism
These people live comfortable but unfulfilled lives. The last of the major injustices in this country were resolved 50 years ago, so they need to manufacture fake crises/injustices like LGBT and AGW issues to give their lives the sense of purpose that religion once provided.
In other words, she’s made a cottage industry out of an illusion.
Houdini would be proud.
You nailed it.
As a white devil, I have no problem discussing how racist liberals are.
White liberals condescend to people they consider ‘inferior’... Conservatives on the other hand speak the same to whites, blacks, Hispanics etc... because on a real level - we see them as humans equal before the eyes of God.
Liberals don’t... So yeah, conservatives can talk about race... and white liberal ‘elites’ can’t. On a creepier note, the reason white liberal elites want more Hispanics in the country is they’ve given up on blacks being their ‘servant class’... so they don’t want to hire them for ‘in home’ jobs... those now go to Hispanics. Just more ‘white liberal elite’ racism...
White liberals have a major self hate complex.
Exactly.
Religion being the target, life without it lacks meaning. Youth today have traded religion for Ancient Aliens. Liberals today go through their college years wishing to ‘make a difference’ with no moral framework, but have no idea as to how to do it without religion. It is sad and indicative of our moral decline.
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