"The redefinition of harm infantilizes people of color. I would never let someone else have so much power over my wellbeing that a 'mean tweet' or a mere question...would shake me to my core.
A new essay by @Rhetors_of_York
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A new essay by @Rhetors_of_York
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"Robin DiAngelo has made a pretty penny insisting that white people should infantilize black people—and that black people should embrace victimhood (their own fragility)—to coax a racial reckoning."
"Robin DiAngelo has made a pretty penny insisting that white people should infantilize black people—and that black people should embrace victimhood (their own fragility)—to coax a racial reckoning."
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"I believe that this ideology's biggest, most dangerous tool is its ever-evolving definition of the most salient word in [DiAngelo's] new book's title: 'harm'."
'Harm' has become an almost ubiquitous term in social justice circles."
"I believe that this ideology's biggest, most dangerous tool is its ever-evolving definition of the most salient word in [DiAngelo's] new book's title: 'harm'."
'Harm' has become an almost ubiquitous term in social justice circles."
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"Where once the potential for harm existed in contact sports, accidents, physical altercations, traumas and so on, one might now find it while reading a question on an exam, listening to a recorded debate in a classroom or encountering an opinion on social media."
"Where once the potential for harm existed in contact sports, accidents, physical altercations, traumas and so on, one might now find it while reading a question on an exam, listening to a recorded debate in a classroom or encountering an opinion on social media."
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"The broadening meaning of harm correlates w/ narrowing of students' ability to handle discomfort & challenges. It can cause activists to spend so much time on relatively innocuous actions that they have none left for the arduous task of dealing w/ real societal harms...
"The broadening meaning of harm correlates w/ narrowing of students' ability to handle discomfort & challenges. It can cause activists to spend so much time on relatively innocuous actions that they have none left for the arduous task of dealing w/ real societal harms...
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"...like housing and food insecurity, failed educational institutions, violence in inner cities and disproportionate mortality rates. Defining harm as shallowly as many modern activists do leads them to mistake symbolic gestures for concrete strategies for change."
"...like housing and food insecurity, failed educational institutions, violence in inner cities and disproportionate mortality rates. Defining harm as shallowly as many modern activists do leads them to mistake symbolic gestures for concrete strategies for change."
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"The redefinition of harm infantilizes people of color. I would never let someone else have so much power over my wellbeing that a 'mean tweet' or a mere question—especially one asked out of curiosity or a request for elaboration—would shake me to my core."
"The redefinition of harm infantilizes people of color. I would never let someone else have so much power over my wellbeing that a 'mean tweet' or a mere question—especially one asked out of curiosity or a request for elaboration—would shake me to my core."
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"I don't think a world in which POC give their power away so easily is one any self-respecting person of color would want to see. Black people survived 300 yrs of slavery & 100 yrs of Jim Crow apartheid, but a request to explain ourselves is unbearably 'harmful'?"
"I don't think a world in which POC give their power away so easily is one any self-respecting person of color would want to see. Black people survived 300 yrs of slavery & 100 yrs of Jim Crow apartheid, but a request to explain ourselves is unbearably 'harmful'?"
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"I, for one, refuse to be harmed so easily. I refuse to let people have so much control over my happiness and fulfillment. My anti-racism is about promoting empowerment. I cannot say the same for others."
"I, for one, refuse to be harmed so easily. I refuse to let people have so much control over my happiness and fulfillment. My anti-racism is about promoting empowerment. I cannot say the same for others."
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"Ask yourself if DiAngelo's ideas & tactics will make any real difference in the lives of the truly injured. Consider the logical effect of ubiquitous harm: when harm begins to mean everything, it ceases to mean anything at all."
Read the article: newsweek.com/redefining-har…
"Ask yourself if DiAngelo's ideas & tactics will make any real difference in the lives of the truly injured. Consider the logical effect of ubiquitous harm: when harm begins to mean everything, it ceases to mean anything at all."
Read the article: newsweek.com/redefining-har…
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