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mrsamsa · 3485 days ago · link · · parent · post: White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism
Fair point but I don't think the label is for them really, it's more for others understanding why white people (or privileged people in general) react so defensively and with so much hostility when the slightest race-based issue comes up. I think it's easy sometimes to dismiss people who misunderstand social issues as just being racists or bigots and have done with it, but it can be important to try to figure out what biases and processes are driving certain reactions. For some people it obviously can just be plain racism. But for others they usually have good intentions, accept the same basic goal (i.e. equality) but get stuck on the details because it's such a radically different way of looking at life than the way they've been taught.