Ohhh man, is this going to be another one of those stupid buzzwords? Try to get through this professors logic below. Good luck…
Via Campus Reform:
White people suffer from “white fragility” if they feel they’ve been oppressed in some manner or aren’t racist, Westfield State University professor Robin DiAngelo claimed in a recent interview.
DiAngelo defines “white fragility” as the “inability to tolerate any kind of challenge to [their] reality”—which comes from “a deep sense of entitlement.” DiAngelo, who is white, called this mentality a “frustrating dynamic” that she doesn’t have patience for.
“And white fragility also comes from a deep sense of entitlement,” DiAngelo said in an interview with Sam Adler-Bell of Raw Story. “Think about it like this: from the time I opened my eyes, I have been told that as a white person, I am superior to people of color. There’s never been a space in which I have not been receiving that message. From what hospital I was allowed to be born in, to [sic] how my mother was treated by the staff, to who owned the hospital, to who cleaned the rooms and took out the garbage. We are born into a racial hierarchy, and every interaction with media and culture confirms it—our sense that, at a fundamental level, we are superior.”
Raw Story criticized Tal Fortgang, a Princeton student who wrote an editorial last year on why he was offended by the “check your privilege” movement—both of his grandparents are Holocaust survivors.