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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Dude. Please think about what you just said. If the reason that *white people* refuse to engage were an intellectually fear that the "concept" is "easily abused," people of any background would not want to engage. The reason why white people refuse to engage is that they are implicated. Many (most?) white people are OK accepting that someone else is racist so long as they can believe in their own innocence and are not affected. White people refuse to engage with white fragility because of their white fragility.
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Who else can be accused of exhibiting white fragility but white people? People of other backgrounds can engage it without it being used as a cudgel by those acting in bad faith. If an Asian person rejects it and a person like Adder says he's exhibiting white fragility, he'd say, "How? It's impossible."
None of this undoes the fact that white people exhibit white fragility all the time. But it's bad faith to assert that every criticism of the concept is proof of the concept. That has to be shown on a case by case basis. Otherwise, we're generalizing, and as I noted before, generalizing is a form of bigoted thinking.
