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Receiving feedback that our behavior had a racist impact (challenge to white racial innocence) • Suggesting that group membership is significant (challenge to individualism)
Robin DiAngelo • White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
While making racism bad seems like a positive change, we have to look at how this functions in practice. Within this paradigm, to suggest that I am racist is to deliver a deep
Robin DiAngelo • White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
white-norm-centered,
Robin DiAngelo • White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
challenge her self-image as someone exempt from racism.
Robin DiAngelo • White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
When the individual giving the feedback is a person of color, the charge is “playing the race card,” and the consequences of white fragility are much more penalizing.
Robin DiAngelo • White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
If we become adults who explicitly oppose racism, as do many, we often organize our identity around a denial of our racially based privileges that reinforce racist disadvantage for others.
Robin DiAngelo • White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Example 3: White Fragility: Why It Is So Hard to Talk to White People about Race by Robin DiAngelo (2018)
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
get past my own conflict avoidance,