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Good critique of the anti-racism (White Fragility and others) cult

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If someone in your life is pressuring you to be schooled in the white privilege anti-racism (“it’s not enough to not be racist, you must be anti-racist”) cult, you might want to take a look at these.

Short and to the point:

This is long, but it’s excellent (alert for the language-sensitive: a few instances of the f-word):

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Good critique of the anti-racism (White Fragility and others) cult — 27 Comments

  1. If people’s lives weren’t being destroyed, this would be a fascinating real-world experiment.

    Professional-class white folks are hyping and exploiting the racial grievances (legitimate and otherwise) of minorities in order to socially elevate themselves, not above minorities but above other white people. Yet those flames of racial resentment will first and most directly burn the white professional class.

    Mike

  2. Don’t think so. The first people burned by white anti-racism SJWs were working class whites. They’ve been getting burned badly for nearly half a century.

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  5. When someone doesn’t see themselve as an individual they open the door to seeing others as members of a tribe. That is dangerous and leads to feuds and pressed to the obvious conclusion, bloodshed.

  6. Stan: Working class whites are particularly hated by SJWs no matter where. A vast majority of America is not populated, so open land, with small towns here and there. A disaster for the Woke. If the SJW comes from a small town that SJW hates that small town and wants the town “to change” and yearns for the city. If the SJW comes from the suburbs they hate that suburb for being bland and yearns for the city. If the SJW comes from a city, depending on what city it is, may yearn for another that’s “progressive” enough for them. If the SJW has found that an American city is not enough they will look to other cities in other countries, preferably Canada, UK, Germany, France, the Nordic countries or Switzerland. If the SJW cannot find a city that’s good enough for them they will look to Mars.

  7. Coleman Hughes is an amazing thinker and communicator. He is so calm and balanced in making his points.

    Wish he could reach a much wider audience.

  8. It’s actually not at all “hard” for me to talk about racism. I grew up in the segregated south, surrounded by black people, close to and yet enormously distant from them. I recognized the injustice early on and have been thinking a lot about racism and the whole racial thing as it has played out in our country since my teens. I can talk about it at length. But I don’t, because when I do I want to address all the complexity and many-sidedness of it, and that’s a fool’s errand today.

    And anyway, what I will not do is sit quietly and be psychologically bullied by the likes of Robin D’Angelo.

  9. Has anyone seen quotes from the Robin DiAngelo book?

    Horrifyingly bad writing. I mean, excruciating.

    Examples:
    – “When there is disequilibrium in the habitus — when social cues are unfamiliar and/or when they challenge our capital — we use strategies to regain our balance.”
    – “Politeness as filtered through fragility and supremacy isn’t about manners; it’s about a methodology of controlling the conversation.”
    – “Highlighting my racial privilege invalidates the form of oppression that I experience (e.g., classism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, ableism, transphobia.) We will then need to turn our attention to how you oppressed me.”
    – “…what we need to be doing for the rest of our lives: engaging in ongoing self-awareness, continuing education, relationship building, and actual antiracist practice.”
    – “Our lack of understanding about implicit bias leads to aversive racism.”

    Given her thesis it’s unsurprising the word “white” should appear frequently, but she transcends topicality and rises to a sort of Tourettes, a monomaniac verbal tic:
    – “To be less white is to break with white silence and white solidarity, to stop privileging the comfort of white people….”
    – “Ruth Frankenberg, a premier white scholar in the field of whiteness, describes whiteness as multidimensional….”

    In the end, she joins Goebbels in the Hall of Fame of Unapologetic Racism (in this case directed against all persons of pallor, but MLK, sleeping perchance to dream, is rolling in his grave either way):
    – “Anti-blackness is foundational to our very identities… Whiteness has always been predicated on blackness.”
    – “[A] positive white identity is an impossible goal.”
    – “[You must] strive to be less white.”

    I’m contemplating writing a Robin DiAngelo leftist racebait-o-babble generator website. The logic for generating that kind of drivel would be, oh, an hour’s work, tops. Her writing contains just that mix of mind-numbing repetition and incoherence that can easily be simulated by selecting random words and phrases from an array and appending them to a string until it’s long enough to look like one of her sentences. To make it especially realistic, I’d need every fourth randomly-selected word to be some variation of “white” (“whiteness,” “whited”, “whiteified”, “enwhitened”, “dyswhitetion”) and most of the words in-between to consist of nouns that have been “verbed” and verbs that have been “nouned.”

    Oy.

  10. Also this, if you want to read instead of watch: http://memepoliceman.com/what-is-antiracist/

    @ the above – Yes, I think the idea that white people do not want to talk about race or racism at all is overblown. It’s certainly not universal. Personally, I like talking about it, and my family is very comfortable talking about it. Many of the people who took African-American history with me in college were white.

  12. It’s actually not at all “hard” for me to talk about racism. I grew up in the segregated south,

    Not hard for me, either. I grew up in the handsome sector of a provincial (2d tier) metropolis, less distant than you’d imagine. The problems in living of the blacks I knew were derived from (1) their personal decisions, (2) the multiplier of peer cultures, and (3) the neglect of officialdom for which was substituted the useless efforts of the social work industry. Black people don’t benefit from Mrs. Jellyby (or from malicious propagandists, either). They would benefit from diligent policing, more sensible building codes and land use plans, more sensible tax schemes, less liberal education and more voTech, better labor market circulation, and a restructuring of common provision to remove perverse incentives. None of that interests some elderly bint like diAngelo, because it doesn’t provide for her to hurl anathemas at white wage earners while collecting payola from university budgets.

  13. Based solely on the quotations that R. C. provided from the diAngelo book, I have to ask: is anybody anywhere talking about diAngelo’s overwhelming racism against everybody on this earth who is neither white nor black? She seems to have a binary construct going on in her mind in which there are only two important groups of people in the calculus of racism — white ones and black ones — and the experiences of everybody else are too insignificant to be considered or even acknowledged. Statements like “Whiteness has always been predicated on blackness” essentially erase everybody who isn’t either white or black — as well as any discrimination they may have experienced at the hands of any member of any race — from the face of the earth.

    Of course, as soon as you start talking about other racial groups, you run into problems with the hypothesis that Everything Bad that Ever Happened is the Fault of White People — because racial animus can, of course, exist between groups of people that don’t include any white ones — such as Asians and black people, for instance. If I were an Asian-American or a Native American or a Hispanic American — or a polyglot person like my young niece, who recently learned from a DNA test that she has ancestors from almost every continent on the planet — I would be getting pretty impatient with this kind of reductionist thinking.

  14. Mrs Whatsit:

    Yes, I’ve seen a video in which someone mentions she ignores all other races, but I can’t remember who it was who said it.

  15. Robin Diangelo quote from R.C.
    – “[You must] strive to be less white.”

    Of course, Ms. Robin is the Very Model of the Modern Un-White Person. Just do whatever she tells you do do. To the degree that you do not do what Ms. Robin tells you to do, you are exemplifying horrible whitebread racism.

    One way you can help cure yourself of your horrible whitebread racism is to pay for a healing from Ms. Diangelo. Try a $12k fee for one of her speeches. Healing isn’t cheap, folks.

    I imagine that it would be a horror to live in the same household with her. She sounds like one heckuva control freak.

    Her shaming others is rather old-hat. Ever since I was in high school I was aware of people who walked around proclaiming “You’re racist and I’M NOT.” Call it the Chevy Chase approach – recall “I’m Chevy Chase and you’re not.” I was also aware that many of those self-proclaimed “unbigoted” people were actually rather bigoted towards white people whose background, social class etc. wasn’t precisely the same as theirs. Tom Lehrer said it well:

    We are the Folk Song Army
    Everyone of us- cares
    We’re against poverty, war, and injustice
    Unlike the rest of you squares.

  19. Coleman Hughes is an amazing thinker and communicator. He is so calm and balanced in making his points.

    Wish he could reach a much wider audience.

    Griffin: Agreed. I was rather astonished at his poise and articulateness.

    Wish I could speak that well in front of a camera!

  20. Yes, I think the idea that white people do not want to talk about race or racism at all is overblown. It’s certainly not universal. Personally, I like talking about it, and my family is very comfortable talking about it. Many of the people who took African-American history with me in college were white.

    shadow: I agree — with the proviso that white people don’t want to talk about race before a potentially hostile audience which could result in job loss for oneself or family and even physical attacks.

  21. shadow on July 7, 2020 at 7:02 pm said:
    Also this, if you want to read instead of watch: http://memepoliceman.com/what-is-antiracist/
    * * *
    That was an excellent article, and very illuminating.
    The site was new to me; I will keep an eye on it.
    I looked at some more of their recent posts, and all the articles were well researched (one could say exhaustively), and well written.

    However, just because we could all use some more laughter in our lives, I suggest taking a look at this one, awarding recognition to Memes in a lot of different, and sometimes hilarious, categories.

    http://memepoliceman.com/the-2019-memeys/

    Better than the Oscars, because at least I’ve read something about the original news stories in most cases, and I have reached the point where 99.9% of the movie nominations are something I haven’t seen — and usually don’t want to.
    Sad.

  22. Since I lived in Africa for a portion of my childhood, it is difficult for me to get worked up about racism in the USA. If the left want to call me racist because I don’t like every black person, that’s OK with me. I don’t dislike black people in general but I don’t idolize them either. People are people.

    If the left wish to turn black people into their gods, sorry, I already have a god who is much better than any human idol. I’d say that the best response to someone who is calling everyone else racist is – “so what?” There are much worse things in the world.

    In Rwanda where I lived as a boy there was a genocide which began in one generation about 1962 and extended into the next in 1994 in two massive waves of murder. Genocide is ugly whether it is done the Turkish people against the Armenians, Germans against the Jews, or Hutus against Tutsis. The people who do those things are all despicable regardless of their skin color.

    Hopefully the genocide in Rwanda is over – for now anyway. In Nigeria, the genocide is ongoing with black Muslim jihadists murdering black Africans Christians with the goal to eventually exterminate them. There is also anti-white genocide going on in South Africa against the Boer farmers.

    The left is playing with fire trying to stir up race hatred in the USA. People who do that are ugly through and through.

  24. Late to this, but Robin DiAngelo is nothing more than an example of the typical humanities/social science PhD now being produced. Those programs routinely churn out people who typically are either women or POCs who were not qualified to actually be admitted to grad school but are diversity admissions. In order for them to graduate they are taught how to spout the leftist garbage using big words in totally ungrammatical sentences. That way, if anyone questions their ability their faculty mentors just produce their thesis which is unreadable. They then get a diversity hire at some higher ed school upon graduation and continue producing their drivel while accomplishing their main job of warping undergrad minds. Over the last 20 years I’ve seen their numbers grow at the college I worked. “Dumb as rocks” is a good description of them once you engage them in actual conversation.

  25. Physically. Agreed. Dumb. But easily and corruptly emotional. It’s a technique.

  26. Late to this, but Robin DiAngelo is nothing more than an example of the typical humanities/social science PhD now being produced.

    Again, she’s not the issue of an arts-and-sciences faculty, but of a teachers’ college. As for the arts-and-sciences, they’re gross in their pretenses, but I don’t think you find people dumpster diving into racial questions with such frequency that she’d be deemed a ‘typical’ research degree recipient. It wouldn’t surprise me if that were the case in sociology, cultural anthropology, or American history, but that doesn’t exhaust what goes on in humanities and social research faculties.

  27. R.C. on July 7, 2020 at 7:00 pm said: Has anyone seen quotes from the Robin DiAngelo book?

    Yes, but what do you think EMPOWERS HER?

    When Feminism Is White Supremacy in Heels
    From tone policing to whitesplaining, the liberal white women’s feminism is more toxic than they realize, explains Rachel Cargle.
    https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/politics/a22717725/what-is-toxic-white-feminism/

    most of this stuff in its modern form came from which ism?
    the one that produces the most stuff and seeks to find things that arent there to start new forms of movement that are unplumbed in their search for all to make a difference in the world and find meaning without children

    They dominate the schools and colleges and the more they do, the wackier and crazier, and more lunatic the society gets… oh. and paranoid.. cant forget paranoid… before their walk in the sun, we believed in a great future, great medicine, flying to the stars… now its fear fear fear, everything going to kill you, human race cant make it, nothing is safe, masculinity is toxic, competition causes mental disorders, and on and on…

    maybe we finding out why there were no societies run by women in history…
    too B**S**t crazy when they have power.

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