chronohartLast month, after finishing Camp Damascus, I decided to pick up my second ever nonfiction book, #WhiteFragility by #RobinDiAngelo, at the recommendation of someone on here. While it took a little while to learn to spot when my focus is drifting and refocus, I've taken to it so much better than expected! I'm about 2/3 through it now and having virtually no focus issues anymore. My problem now is just picking it up every day, since my gaming habit has finally also regained my attention.
Joachim (he/him, white)#AmReading: #WhiteFragility von #RobinDiAngelo.
Ich hab das Buch schon lange im Blick gehabt, es ist ja auch viel zitiert, aber ich hatte es lange nicht im Zugriff.
.. es mir dann aber #kürzlich endlich mal gekauft und nun lese ich es eben auch.
Ich hab die englische Ausgabe.
#WeißSein #Bildung #Rassismus #AntiRassismus #Büchermenschen #Lesen #Bookstodon
wolfkinEww how do I protest stuff like this being show in my local theatres. Not cool #Cineplex... not cool.
#MattWalsh #DailyWire #RobinDiAngelo #racism #ChristianNationalism
taco, bird/cat 
@MontgomeryGator I would highly encourage you to read the rest of the posts I've made on this subject tagged #WhiteFragility . By minimizing the problem to class alone you are being reductive to the issues people of color face every day. In fact, it's one of the things that #RobinDiAngelo quotes in the video I linked earlier.
"I know people of color. [...] The real oppression is class. You misunderstood me. [...] If you knew me or understood me, you'd know I can't be racist. This is not welcoming to me. You're making me feel guilty."
Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses 'White Fragility'
I can choose it. Don't want it. Got it. And it's actually incredibly transformative and liberating to begin from that premise so that you can begin to think,
"Well, how is it coming out in me?" so that I might be able to stop that or ameliorate that rather than, "It's not coming out in me."
[...]
And yet the worst fear of a white progressive is that we're going to say or do something racist, but, "By God, don't you dare say that I just said or did something racist," rather than, "Thank you. I didn't see myself doing that, and now I can do something different."
i want to bring up a quote from #RobinDiAngelo from her talk on her book, #WhiteFragility.
As a result of being born and raised as a white person in this culture, I have a racist worldview. I have deep, racist biases.
I have developed racist patterns, and I have investments in a system that has served me very well and is very comfortable for me, and it really helped me get over sexist and classism that I struggle with. And I also have investments in not seeing any of that, for what it would mean for my identity and what it would require of me in action, right?
Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses 'White Fragility'
[...] All of them take race off the table. All of them close rather than open the exploration, and in doing that, all of them protect the current racial hierarchy and the white position within it.
- Dr. DiAngleo discussing her book at the University of Washington
Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses 'White Fragility'
"Yes, but at the human level..." when we make that move, right, get race off the table, and let's position some kind of shared universal experience. There isn't one in this physical plane that we live in, in a society deeply separate and unequal by race, right? So I call these color-blind because they basically say, "I don't see it, and if I see it, it has no meaning."
- Dr. DiAngleo discussing her book at the University of Washington
Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses 'White Fragility'
[...] And this is another one I actually ask white folks to remove from their vocabulary, oh, by the way, along with reverse racism, which there's no such thing. All right? Right? Remove from your vocabulary anything on the topic of race that begins with,
"Just happened to be, regardless," including that your neighborhood just happened to be white. All right?" [cont.]
- Dr. DiAngleo discussing her book at the University of Washington
Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses 'White Fragility'
"...so often the things that we think convey that are not conveying that, and all of these are within that, you know, "It's in the past, just everyone struggles. My parents weren't racist. That's why I'm not racist. Oh, my parents were racist. That's why I'm not racist." It doesn't matter, really, what we say first. What comes next must be, "I'm not racist." [cont.]
- Dr. DiAngleo discussing her book at the University of Washington