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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
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.
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You remain fundamentally unserious about these issues. Of course an Asian person can have the same type of defensive reaction about his own racism. That the title of the book is specifically about white people doesn’t mean white people are somehow unique in their difficulty in seeing their own complicity.
Also, go read How to be Antiracist. In far too brief summary, it’s about a Black man learning to recognize his own racism.
