Monday, November 15, 2021

Interesting Rumination over "White Fragility" [Brief]

By An Old Friend

Interesting Rumination over "White Fragility" [Brief]

Some of you may have endured a civilian "stand down" of your own at work or school in the last year. These mandatory bias training sessions, as you probably know, are based on a trashy fantasy novel called White Fragility. This illiterate manifesto became a must-pretend-to-read after Floydapalooza 2020.

Written by a manic new age Wiccan who gives off major crazy ex-girlfriend vibes, White Fragility makes the case that any time a white person defends him or herself from hoax accusations of racism, that is a sign of fragility; self-defense as proof of weakness and guilt. White people are so fragile! So easily broken! Pale and icy cold, they crumble at the slightest pushback, like the pathetic snowflakes they are!
But then you keep reading, and you discover White Fragility actually makes a pretty strong case that whites are the opposite of fragile. In fact, they are so powerful, so strong, so superior to other lesser beings that the only way anyone else can get a chance is if more whites volunteer to be weaker.
In the face of such totalizing white dominance—or supremacy, if you will—all the weak can do is beg the whites to take a knee, step aside, apologize for and mute their own wondrous superpowers that no one has yet made a dent in, for centuries!
Therefore, after you complete your mandatory 50 hours of CRT anti-whiteness bias training this year, do not feel cowed, defeated, or ashamed—no! Instead, you should luxuriate in the godlike nature of your omnipotence. It's not just okay to be white—it's friggin' awesome. Robin D'Angelo, high priestess of White Fragility, said so, over and over again.

Reminds me of this briefer take that was a reader's comment at some post awhile back:

I have been saying for years that taking the progressives at their word: everything wrong with the world is caused by straight, white males indicates that 3% of the world can oppress the other 97% even if the other 97% know it and the best that 97% can do is ask the straight, white males to stop.
If that isn't an argument for white supremacy I don't know what is. 


4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Maybe the 97 % of the world will be more happier when they are ruled by President Xi of China. All just smile when Xi says boo.

Anonymous said...

jerry pdx
A little more information about Robin D'iangelo and just how lucrative anti Whiteness can be: https://freebeacon.com/culture/the-wages-of-woke-2/
Note the photo of her at home with her husband and friends...all white people. She lives in very White rural Washington. Check out this sentence:

In the past three years, DiAngelo and Toews, who as of last September served as DiAngelo’s administrative assistant, have backpacked through Thailand, visited Romania, and toured South Africa.

So she "backpacked" through Thailand but "toured" South Africa. Why didn't she backpack through South Africa? Let me guess, a White woman "backpacking" through South Africa is almost certainly going to be raped by negroes and her "Wokeness" isn't sincere enough to allow any kind of chance of that happening.

eahilf said...

... a trashy fantasy novel called White Fragility ... Robin D'Angelo, high priestess of White Fragility ...

Not sure if White Fragility is referred to as a 'novel' ironically or not -- ? -- anyway, it's not a novel, it's non-fiction, one of the better known books of the CRT genre -- the author, Robin DiAngelo, is a female junk academic (yet another one).

She's also an example of something else: a white woman who criticizes, even condemns, her own race collectively -- she does it relentlessly; she's made it her life's work -- women of other races simply don't do that.

Anonymous said...

Eahilf:
Probably true except for blacks like Candace Owens and Larry Elder--"niche blacks",I call them.They've found careers agreeing with Whitey and attacking blackies. Whether they're sincere or not in their beliefs is the question.


--GRA