The Myth of White Fragility: A Field Guide to Identifying and Overcoming the Race Grifters by Jim Hanson

Author:Jim Hanson
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2020-08-09T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4- Deep Dive

This is where the other logical fallacy of White Fragility comes into play. It is the presumption of guilt, but worse than the usual legal version of this because no evidence other than the Whiteness and White skin of the accused need be presented. Even worse than that, there is no way to present any other evidence to the contrary because all protestations are deemed as proof of the racism that needs to be atoned for.

"Despite its ubiquity, White superiority is also unnamed and denied by most Whites. If we become adults who explicitly oppose racism, as do many, we often organize our identity around a denial of our racially based privileges that reinforce racist disadvantage for others. What is particularly problematic about this contradiction is that White people’s moral objection to racism increases their resistance to acknowledging their complicity with it. In a White supremacist context, White identity largely rests on a foundation of (superficial) racial tolerance and acceptance. We Whites who position ourselves as liberal often opt to protect what we perceive as our moral reputations, rather than recognize or change our participation in systems of inequity and domination." Pg. 109 White Fragility[33]

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