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White Fragility-Weaponized

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V2DHeart:
I read a book called “why I’m no longer talking about race”, which it’s author, a very successful black female university  graduate goes on to talk about white privilege and structural racism. Obviously this exists in all walks of life, but the author was a publisher for the daily telegraph, New York Times, Buzzfeed and one of seven prominent British women to be photographed for British Vogue.

She comes across as an unjustified bitter person though. A phrase from the book talks about whites “unearned privilege”, as if all white people have unearned privilege, which craps over potential years of a white persons graft and efforts. I know many whites that have overcame addiction, family issues and strives for a better life for themselves and their family.

A lot of these people championing this topic are contradictory. For example, this author complains that a certain panel in the UK only had 1 black person and that the other 9 were white (citing clear racism), yet conveniently forgetting that the demographic makeup of the UK is 80+% white or overlooking the black majority in the NBA and how most black players make far more in a month than their white managers make in a year

Ebony Bree Caple:

--- Quote from: V2DHeart on January 05, 2020, 07:58:06 AM ---I read a book called “why I’m no longer talking about race”, which it’s author, a very successful black female university  graduate goes on to talk about white privilege and structural racism. Obviously this exists in all walks of life, but the author was a publisher for the daily telegraph, New York Times, Buzzfeed and one of seven prominent British women to be photographed for British Vogue.

She comes across as an unjustified bitter person though. A phrase from the book talks about whites “unearned privilege”, as if all white people have unearned privilege, which craps over potential years of a white persons graft and efforts. I know many whites that have overcame addiction, family issues and strives for a better life for themselves and their family.

A lot of these people championing this topic are contradictory. For example, this author complains that a certain panel in the UK only had 1 black person and that the other 9 were white (citing clear racism), yet conveniently forgetting that the demographic makeup of the UK is 80+% white or overlooking the black majority in the NBA and how most black players make far more in a month than their white managers make in a year

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Nobody is saying white people as a whole don't experience hardship

Your using that measure to discount the foundational practice of white supremacy is the weaponized fragility I'm referring to

If your Mum is unwell you don't say "Well, that lady's Mum is unwell so everything's okay"

If there's a problem, you fix it. Unless you're heartless

If you don't care for the term privilege how about inequity
Inequity is evident on a statistical scale

You got in your feelings on this one

We need to discount the weaponized fragility in order to strengthen the obvious need for equity which has been survived, with struggle and now needs to be OVERCOME

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