Caitlin Waddick#WhiteDefensiveness is a term to describe defensive responses by white people to discussions of societal discrimination, structural racism, and white privilege. The term has been applied to characterize the responses of white people to portrayals of the Atlantic slave trade and European colonization, or scholarship on the legacy of those systems in modern society. ...multiple forms of white defensiveness, ...#WhiteDenial, #WhiteDiversion, and #WhiteFragility ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_defensiveness #Racism
Ricardo Harvin#WhiteMaterial, 2009, directed by #ClaireDenis and starring #IsabelleHuppert is another look into the #HeartOfDarkness, this time that of the arrogance of #whiteDenial born of #whitePrivilege.
Maria chooses to ignore reality and believe she, her family, and their plantation will be safe even as a righteous reckoning closes in.
She clings desperately to what was never hers, and earns her just, brutal fate.
A tense, slow-burn of a #film on #TheCriterionChannel
