Here's an example of how bots try to work up societal division. The #NPC tag is meant to make fun of social justice. It gets people all worked up over nothing.https://twitter.com/conspirator0/status/1051580874888814593 …
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Here's an example of how bots try to work up societal division. The #NPC tag is meant to make fun of social justice. It gets people all worked up over nothing.https://twitter.com/conspirator0/status/1051580874888814593 …
I'm not sure how this applies to Robin DiAngelo tho.
You're right. It doesn't. But hashtags like wypipo do get pushed by bots to make us believe racial divides are worse than they are. I am trying to learn more about it! It is shaping some of our thinking, I believe.
OK, but Robin DiAngelo isn't one. She's one of the most influential critical race scholars that we've been studying.
Helen, another consideration is that these terms are pushed by bots, making things look even worse. People need to be more media savvy.
Huh? No, that's Robin DiAngelo she is talking about.
Skeptical Review is starting to sound like a bot right now... The bots are laying a trap.pic.twitter.com/ZJp0GMm6ln
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It's about stigmatizing dissent, and not much more.
1. Excellent! Another tactic I use when being accused of “white fragility” is to ask “is there something intrinsic in my whiteness that makes me fragile?” The variety of answers is fascinating. When they say “yes” I point out that essentialist thinking like that is....
l2. ...problematic if we agree that race is a construct. If they respond to that by saying “race isn’t a construct” then I ask why are they opposed to research from people like Douglas Murray? If the response to my initial claim about essentialism is “no, it’s not intrinsic.”..
3. Then I simply say “So what you’re talking about is human fragility. It just happens to be ‘white’ at this moment. Right?” Of course I’m usually blocked before I even get to make this point.
Of course. Anything done as a rebuttal is “proof” of Said label. Using this as a way to “pigeonhole” a race is totalitarian in ideology. The slippery slope.
This idea of widespread “white fragility” is a trap IMHO. As you said, if one disagrees in any manner, BOOM, White Fragility. This invocations seems to be more and more disingenuous.
I'm disappointed. I thought wypipo meant homie or friend. I mean the 'pip' is obviously a Dicken's reference right? And he is the friendliest friend who ever friended.
From what I've read, most white people arent generally conscious of being white, as opposed to most minorities where they closely relate their race to their own identity. I think that's an important element in this conversation
This sounds very reminiscent of how Chinese thought reformers would say a prisoner wasn't "sincere" unless he unreservedly confessed to all accusations against him.
Thanks alot Helen!! Now I have a headache from reading some of the absolutely moronic replies in that thread.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say peace as a standard is good to expect and maintain.
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