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@WokeMV
Sep 19, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
White Fragility lesson of the day, straight from the book: 🧠🧑‍🎓

Q. You disagree with a coworker during a meeting. She says disagreeing with her is racist. 😮What do you do? 🤔

A. Listen. Admit racism. Apologize. Stop disagreeing with her. 🧎

[@DouglasKMurray #JoanRivers]
Q. You wear a white shirt to work. Your coworker says that’s racist. 😡What do you do?😮

A. Listen. Admit racism. Apologize. Change your shirt.
🧎
Q. A coworker demands you shine her shoes. 👠 She says not shining them is racist. 😡 What do you do? 😮

A. Listen. Concede racism. Apologize. Shine her shoes. 🧎
DiAngelo explains all this in White Fragility, particularly pages 103,119&142. No, this is not infantilizing to POC. As @DouglasKMurray says, “If I can’t disagree with you, you’re not my equal.” Disagreement not allowed [p142]. Intentions don't matter [p103].
If I'm not being fair and true to the tenets of the original text, please let me know. But I think @jondavidchurch and @HPluckrose @ConceptualJames would back me up here. I'm open to disagreement.

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Oct 14, 2023
👩🏻‍🎓 “Sit in your discomfort.”

It’s a valid concept. When examining a new idea that is counter to our worldview, we can experience discomfort, cognitive dissonance.

A thoughtful person sits in that discomfort & examines the idea. They try to be aware of their prejudices....
& biases and examine that idea while being aware of their prejudices & biases.

But that doesn’t make the idea correct.

That’s where the concept gets abused. That’s where the manipulation begins. The manipulation is twofold:
1) Social Justice/Race/Activist “scholars” take that discomfort as proof that their ideas are correct;

and

2) Social Justice/Race/Activist “scholars” consider only one reason for that discomfort: the person’s prejudices & biases.....
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Oct 2, 2023
The scientific method (White Fragility style):

1. Make an observation. (White people are sensitive when talking about race.)
2. Generate a hypothesis. (This is because of White Fragility.)
3. Brainstorm for other explanations. (Not necessary.)... Image
4. Test your hypothesis. (Not necessary.)
5. Be careful not to insert your biases and untested ideas. (We live in a White Supremacist society, people react this way to protect their privilege, We must decolonize…))
6. Draw a conclusion. (All my untested ideas are right.)...
7. Publish your findings and open yourself up to criticism & questioning. (Not necessary. If White people disagree, it is because of White Fragility. If Black people disagree, it’s because they have False Consciousness. Case closed. No reason to discuss.)
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May 15, 2023
My first experience with Wokeness was in Austin, Texas in 1988.

I went to university excited to meet the free-thinkers of the world, the professors and students who wanted to discuss ideas and how to improve society.

What I found was . . . Image
. . . a gaggle of angry, mean-spirited, bullying people who wrapped their quasi-religious ideology in the flag of tolerance, inclusion & diversity.

There were no discussions. You either believed – or you were a bad person. End of discussion. Image
Race was their obsession. I soon realized that for these largely privileged, sheltered white people, the goal was not battling racism or helping a long-oppressed underclass. Or even to examine your own biases.

The goal was to achieve moral superiority with minimal sacrifice.
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Apr 16, 2023
Racism. It's an important subject. It's led to oppression, wars & genocides. We need good scholarship.

For this important subject, Dr. Robin DiAngelo is one of our leading scholars. Image
And when the scholar met her first real-life Black people, when she was in her 30s. Image
Some of her scholarship. Image
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Apr 6, 2023
It's an interesting concept.

It's a central tenet of the scholar's ideology.

The scholar doesn't explore the concept in any depth.

Let's explore it for him. . . . Image
1. “A racist idea is any idea that suggests one racial group is inferior or superior to another racial group in any way.” -- [HTBAA, page 20] ✓

2. “An antiracist idea is any idea that suggests the racial groups are equals in all their apparent differences.”
3. “Antiracist ideas argue that racist policies are the cause of racial inequities.” [p.20]

Let's reify:

👧🏽 👨🏽🍦 “Daddy, I have an idea. Let’s go get some ice-cream!”
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Apr 5, 2023
Collective guilt. You are guilty of the sins committed in the past & present by people who looked like you.

🤔The Jews killed Jesus. You are a Jew.
🤔Muslims commit terrorism. You are a Muslim.
🤔Blacks commit more crimes. You are black.
🤔Germans killed Jews. You are a German. Image
I'm not saying it's a bad concept. I'm just thinking about it.

It has been used in racial profiling to justify stopping people on the basis of their race. And for judging people by their group membership.
The Old Testament doesn't like it. Islam doesn't like it. DiAngelo likes it.

Maybe DiAngelo has it right and the Old Testamanent and the Quran has it wrong. 🤔
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