Culture Wars and Cancel Culture

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"White Fragility" Is an Evil and Irrational Concept
There's a lot to digest here. The convoluted and dysfunctional logic of the concept of "White Fragility" is beyond ridiculous. It's politically motivated and nothing more than a cheap attempt to manipulate people into accepting a dysfunctional world view. The scary thing is that many of the ideas are making it into public schools. This idea of "White Fragility" must be recognized, challenged, and purged.

[drdesert]

7 Reasons Why "White Fragility" is the Worst Book Ever
This is pretty funny. This popular book is so incredibly stupid and it's popularity attests to the truth that there are way too many truly stupid people in the world!

This book fits in with all the SJW / Marxist ideology that the far left has become increasingly enamored by in recent years. The lunatic libtard left has always been kind of kooky, but oddly eccentric has turned into pathologically extreme.

[shadylady]

drdesert: The transition we've seen in the lunatic libtard left going from kind of kooky and oddly eccentric to pathologically extreme is kind of like a cat lady who goes from caring for three dozen cats (in her typical three bedroom home on a typical quarter acre lot) to replacing the cats with a couple hundred rattlesnakes, cobras, and different kinds of poisonous vipers. Neighbors become a little concerned, but the lady reassures them that the venomous snakes only kill the bad people and so as long as her neighbors behave themselves everything will be fine.

[desertrat]

Matt Taibbi DISMANTLES woke corporate race book 'White Fragility'
When you're in an echo chamber where everyone believes the same bullshit, you write a clueless book based on a toxic ideology. The crazy thing is that this one became a best-seller which tells you a lot about the widespread problem of stupidity in the USA.

[desertrat]

White Fragility's Circular Logic
It's a big nothing burger filled with Marxist ideology and SJW bullshit. This discussion starts out going in the right direction, but then they fall into the standard mistake of blaming society. That's better than the "white fragility" theory of racism, but it still misses the boat by a long shot. Here's a dose of reality for you. We live in a merit-based society and that's exactly how it should be. People who don't contribute, don't get rewarded and that's how it should be. We've had decades of affirmative action with not a lot to show for it. There's an underlying reason for that which is pretty damn obvious. Racism is not the issue. In fact, racism no longer exists in any systemic manner. There are individuals of all races who have racist views of people in other races, but there's not a coherent or predominant pattern of racism which exists anymore.

[desertrat]

The White Fragility Hustle
The racism-industrial complex has been born. It should have been aborted, but it's never too late to kill it off!

This guy starts off well, but he falls back into the old 1960s mindset and suggests all sorts of false solutions and highlights false issues. In particular his assertions about crime statistics are full of false attributions and his analysis of the stats are just plain wrong. For instance, he states that white people and black people use marijuana at the same rate and that black people are four times more likely to be arrested for it. That may be true, but he automatically assumes that the difference is due to racial identity and not something to do with behavior. For instance, black people might be more out in the open about their use of marijuana or they may be less discriminate about who they purchase the marijuana from or they may be more likely to resist arrest or interact with detectives in a less productive manner. The list of variables could go on into the dozens and to pretend that the only relevant variable is race is mindlessly stupid. In fact, it's actually racist to assume that the difference is due to race.

[MojaveMike]

If the first explanation you come up with is racism when there's a negative event involving a black person, you might be the real racist.

[pcslim]

IMHO everyone should strive to be non-racist. Every anti-racist person I've seen explain their position has exhibited undeniable indicators of underlying racist assumptions. They seem completely unaware of their hypocrisy. If they are unable to understand their own inner psychology and fix their own problems, how can they possibly solve any social problems, real or perceived? False perceptions evaporate when one resolves inner issues resulting in misunderstandings and erroneous beliefs. Externalization of inner issues only causes problems. These promoters of "anti-racism" should fix their own big problems before criticizing what might be the faults of others. It's a simple concept and more people should follow it. The world would be a better place if they did.

[MojaveMike]

Multicultural Education
Rewriting history is a preoccupation of Marxists and the extreme left. The problem is their version of history is not just simply inaccurate, it's an actual fabrication. An example given is a claim made that a black man invented the first clock during the 1700s. This is completely incorrect. The clock was around for centuries before the black man in question constructed a clock. This example is very typical. The truth is that blacks contributed very little to the technological advancement of mankind. It's just a historical fact and when you see claims to the contrary keep in mind that these claims are being made by cultural Marxists who wish to rewrite history and in giving credit to black people for things they didn't actually accomplish, credit is being taken away from those to whom credit is due.

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Are You Allergic To Logic? Here's Your Cure-Conservative Twins
People who believe in "white fragility" are allergic to logic. This guy doesn't actually say that, but he might as well have.