OK we have had multiple threads about how blacks can do this or that and usually when the subject is turned to whites the thread gets trolled or moved. How about we look at a phenomenon called White Fragility. This is a term coined by a white female, Dr. Robin Deangelo.
White people in North America live in a social environment that protects and insulates them from race-based stress. This insulated environment of racial protection builds white expectations for racial comfort while at the same time lowering the ability to tolerate racial stress, leading to what I refer to as White Fragility. White Fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves. These moves include the outward display of emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and behaviors such as argumentation, silence, and leaving the stress-inducing situation. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium.”
“Any white person living in the United States will develop opinions about race simply by swimming in the water of our culture. But mainstream sources—schools, textbooks, media—don’t provide us with the multiple perspectives we need. Yes, we will develop strong emotionally laden opinions, but they will not be informed opinions. Our socialization renders us racially illiterate. When you add a lack of humility to that illiteracy (because we don’t know what we don’t know), you get the break-down we so often see when trying to engage white people in meaningful conversations about race.”
Dr. Robin DiAngelo
We have heard all the many ways blacks are fucked up and how we need to change according to the many whites here. How about we now look at what WHITES can did to erase the division by race in America?
This is just an opinion. Just because she is a “doctor” and makes up a fancy new buzzword/term to describe her opinion, does not make this a fact. This is just a silly...can’t even call it a theory, but opinion. For many reasons. The biggest is just generalizing and lumping an entire race group, that is no where near a homogeneous group. Which is something you should never do in general, even when it’s referring to a more specific sect of a race like say Inuit vs Native American. It’s just flat out wrong when it’s directed at an entire color...I really shouldn’t have to explain this. As if explaining this matters, your just finding other delusions to support your own.
No, it is more than that. It is an observation based upon holding classes for over 20 yeas with only whites on the issue of race relations.
Because it's funny how you can generalized all you want about blacks but suddenly this is not to be done with whites. Go do some research on this issue.
Shouldn’t she have research? And no observations you make on your students do not count. She knows that’s not science, I hope you know that’s not science. That’s just observations...even an abstract field such as hers still has very rigid scientific standards. This is her opinion, based on her “observations”, that she gave a buzzword to describe.
You’re the OP, shouldn’t you have posted some actual research? Or do you listen to everything someone you like tells you?
And no I don’t generalize in general
, wether it’s race, religion, whatever. Because I believe generalizing is WRONG. I may give statistics, which is certainly dofferent from generalizing, and by nature cannot be generalizing, after all how could it be when you say such and such percent, makes up this, of such and such group....that’s not a generalization which is, this group is this way, or acts like this, believe this or always does this. It’s no longer a generalization when you say this group is more/less likely to do this (even if that statement is true or false, still is not a genralization).
Nice deflection by the way...why not own up to your own shit instead of shifting blame.
