American - Educator | September 8, 1956 -
In aversive racism, the concept of racism is abhorrent to that person. But they're filled with racist conditioning and bias, as we all are. Because that conflicts with their identity as good people, they suppress it and are even more in denial about it. They are even more likely to erupt in defensiveness if it gets called out.
Robin DiAngelo
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We whites who position ourselves as liberal often opt to protect what we perceive as our moral reputationsrather than recognize or change our participation in systems of inequity and domination.
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There is no human objectivity.
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The antidote to white fragility is ongoing and lifelong and includes sustained engagement, humility, and education.
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The question that white people need to ask ourselves is not if we were shaped by the forces of racism, but how.
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While individual whites may be against racism, they still benefit from the distribution of resources controlled by their group.
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The default of our society is the reproduction of racial inequality. I mean, that's what it does; that's what it's been doing for hundreds of years.
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The language of violence that many whites use to describe anti-racist endeavors is not without significance, as it is another example of how white fragility distorts reality.
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The goal of my work is to make visible the inevitable racist assumptions held, and patterns displayed, by white people conditioned from living in a white supremacist culture.
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I have spent years studying what it means to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race.
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Like a nontechnical user trying to understand a technical problem, our racial illiteracy limits our ability to have meaningful conversations about race.
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A fundamental but very challenging part of my work is moving white people from an individual understanding of racism - i.e. only some people are racist and those people are bad - to a structural understanding.
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