On “White Fragility”

[GURPS]

The concept, as articulated in books like former corporate consultant Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility (Amazon’s #1 seller!) reduces everything, even the smallest and most innocent human interactions, to racial power contests.

It’s been mind-boggling to watch White Fragility celebrated in recent weeks. When it surged past a Hunger Games book on bestseller lists, USA Today cheered, “American readers are more interested in combatting racism than in literary escapism.” When DiAngelo appeared on The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon gushed, “I know… everyone wants to talk to you right now!” White Fragility has been pitched as an uncontroversial road-map for fighting racism, at a time when after the murder of George Floyd Americans are suddenly (and appropriately) interested in doing just that. Except this isn’t a straightforward book about examining one’s own prejudices. Have the people hyping this impressively crazy book actually read it?

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. White Fragility has a simple message: there is no such thing as a universal human experience, and we are defined not by our individual personalities or moral choices, but only by our racial category.

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/on-white-fragility

 

[Smokey1]

The concept of "white fragility" is racist. Funny how some get a pass for their racism.

 

[vraiblonde]

Have the people hyping this impressively crazy book actually read it?

Of course not.

How it works:

The publishing company has a team of press agents whose job it is to get publicity for their authors and books. They call around and get these authors booked on the talk shows, and the host gets a brief rundown so they sound like they know what they're talking about when they interview said author. Frequently they also get a list of questions to ask, so they literally don't need to do anything more than read their script and pretend to be interested in the answers.



As to this book, hasn't the Left been clear that they want racial segregation? Black student unions, Black only this and that, Black TV channel......then they have the nerve to call everyone else racist. It's no different than Jim Crow, which was also a Democrat thing.

Liberals do not want to combat prejudice; they actively promote it. When do you ever see black people on CNN who are doing something other than busting chit up and killing people, or cheering the criminals on? Why do you think white liberals believe black people can't get a photo ID or find the DMV? This is what they see from the media. Ugly rap music, ghetto movies...conservatives don't make that stuff, liberals do, and that creates an image in the mind of the consumer.

Then they have the nerve to insist that dividing us will bring us together.

I grew up with the message that we're supposed to be colorblind, so I am. Now the message is that you MUST see race and respond to it. Can't just treat people like people, there has to be a racial factor involved in every interaction. The good news is that that sort of bigotry and segregation has only taken hold in liberal strongholds. In real America we disregard that crap and have normal interactions. But the bad news is that leftwing prejudice America controls our media, so that's what a large number of us are being forcefed.

 

[Kyle]

I'm tired of the oppression Olympics.

 

[GURPS]

Matt Taibbi slams bestseller 'White Fragility' as corporate vision on racism


“This is how they want to reinterpret their racial issues,” he said. “This is the racism problem as seen through the lens of somebody who makes thousands of dollars an hour, being hired by companies.”

Taibbi said that rather than confronting how they contribute to systematic racism, companies tend to force their employees into trainings with outside academics like DiAngelo.

“This is how corporate America views the race problem, it views it as an individual issue that where racism is is sort of inexorably stuck in all of us and the only way that we can combat it is through relentlessly listening to corporate consultants,” Taibbi said.

 

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