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

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He’d become a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, for which he had written more than two dozen document-based articles—mostly about anti-bias training in the government, schools, and corporations—which, he told me, had together accrued more than two hundred and fifty million impressions online. The emphasis was no longer on the assimilation of immigrants, but on the natives accommodating the cultures of new settlers, even if these were at odds with values that defined them. They are there because they “know [they] are part of the problem, and want to be part of the solution,” as host Jess Campbell-Swanson says before dinner starts.

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Sure, I’ve been witness to trainings that I thought, Ennnnnh, not quite sure that’s the way I would approach it,” she said.His adaptation of the term “critical race theory” was itself an effort to emphasize a deep historical and intellectual pattern to anti-racism, and he, too, found it predictable that people encountering it for the first time would be outraged by it.

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Thirsty for revenge, Myra finds out Lilly has been stealing from Bobo over the years and stashing the money in the trunk of her car, and she leaks this information to him. She found Rao needlessly provocative and mean-spirited, unaware of her own class privilege, and divisive. Welcome: Internalized Racial Superiority for White People,” read one introductory slide, over an image of the Seattle skyline. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience.

Because white women are “ nice” and “ polite,” they wouldn’t think of leaving the dinner table, no matter how uncomfortable they get, Rao explained in a recent podcast, pointing out that the kind of confrontational conversation that characterizes a typical R2D session might otherwise send these avatars of white fragility running out of a conference or a lecture hall. Son of two retired Met police officers who avoided jail despite killing two pedestrians while drug-driving. The other frames are wrong, too: ‘cancel culture’ is a vacuous term and doesn’t translate into a political program; ‘woke’ is a good epithet, but it’s too broad, too terminal, too easily brushed aside. Carlson’s face retracted into a familiar pinched squint while Rufo recounted several of his articles. If they don’t hold these positions themselves, the white men in power are often their family, friends and partners.