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White fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves.

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Denying that race matters is irrational in the face of segregation and all of the other forms of obvious racial inequity in society... Maintaining this denial of reality takes tremendous emotional and psychic energy.

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The language of violence that many whites use to describe anti-racist endeavors is not without significance, as it is another example of how white fragility distorts reality.

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This is what I have learned: 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.

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We whites who position ourselves as liberal often opt to protect what we perceive as our moral reputationsrather than recognize or change our participation in systems of inequity and domination.

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Racism has two primary functions: the oppression of people of color, which most people recognize, but also the simultaneous elevation of white people. You can't hold one group down without lifting the other up.

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If I have no idea how my race shapes me, I am probably not going to be open to any feedback about how your race shapes you.

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I have found that the only way to give feedback without triggering white fragility is not to give it at all.

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White fragility doesn't always manifest in overt ways; silence and withdrawal are also functions of fragility.

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One cannot understand how racism functions in the U.S. today if one ignores group power relations.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: September 8th, 1956

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