The first page of White Fragility said "whiteness doesn't exist, but denying its existence makes it more powerful" and that's when I put the book down and said "I can't."
The first page of White Fragility said "whiteness doesn't exist, but denying its existence makes it more powerful" and that's when I put the book down and said "I can't."
What really got me in the book was when she started talking about people who were “white passing”. According to her, it doesn’t matter what your ethnicity is, but only what your skin color is. That sounds like bigotry, but I guess I haven’t “done the work” enough to understand it. I had a former coworker who got super woke, and she started posting all this anti-racist stuff on Facebook, one of which said, “If you are white, you have nothing to say about racism.” What I started wondering is if that is a continuum, or is it a hard cutoff? Like, do people with darker brown skin have more privilege than people with lighter brown skin? Are they allowed to say more about racism? Or, is there some shade of beige that if your skin is lighter than that, you have white privilege? What if you are mixed race and your skin color is ambiguous? Is there a Home-Depot-style color chart that tells you when you are allowed to have an opinion on race? The whole idea seems ridiculous to me.
The first page of White Fragility said "whiteness doesn't exist, but denying its existence makes it more powerful" and that's when I put the book down and said "I can't."
It really says that? Wtf...
What really got me in the book was when she started talking about people who were “white passing”. According to her, it doesn’t matter what your ethnicity is, but only what your skin color is. That sounds like bigotry, but I guess I haven’t “done the work” enough to understand it. I had a former coworker who got super woke, and she started posting all this anti-racist stuff on Facebook, one of which said, “If you are white, you have nothing to say about racism.” What I started wondering is if that is a continuum, or is it a hard cutoff? Like, do people with darker brown skin have more privilege than people with lighter brown skin? Are they allowed to say more about racism? Or, is there some shade of beige that if your skin is lighter than that, you have white privilege? What if you are mixed race and your skin color is ambiguous? Is there a Home-Depot-style color chart that tells you when you are allowed to have an opinion on race? The whole idea seems ridiculous to me.
Yes, they call it “colorism” ...
It is ludicrous.
It's the brown paper bag test, readopted by the Left. Interesting how Progressive's racism looks so much like Democrats' historical racism.
Not just ridiculous but absolutely racist and evil to the core.
I can’t Anthony I couldn’t even pick the book up!
This calls to mind Mark Twain's reported quip about the latest Henry James novel: "It's one of those books that once you put down you can't pick up."
What you did is what all rational, sentient, sane people need to do.
Give "the back of the hand" to this progressive idiocy and dismiss it immediately as the trash it is.