Yep, and if you point this hypocrisy out to them, they don’t care because the whole idea of “white fragility” is just a rhetorical means to control the conversation anyway. Having invented it and popularized it, now a lot of people don’t argue back for fear of being called fragile, and people who do, or who don’t respond how they want, or try to ignore them can be tarred as fragile and their current and future points dismissed. Meanwhile, their side can react to the world however they want, including with regular existential screaming freakouts, and it isn’t (in this case) fat ugly black fragility, because they’ll claim that’s not a thing.
If you imagine yourself to be a black/LGBT supremacist, and think from that perspective, everything these people do and say makes perfect sense. That's what they are.
Yep, and if you point this hypocrisy out to them, they don’t care because the whole idea of “white fragility” is just a rhetorical means to control the conversation anyway. Having invented it and popularized it, now a lot of people don’t argue back for fear of being called fragile, and people who do, or who don’t respond how they want, or try to ignore them can be tarred as fragile and their current and future points dismissed. Meanwhile, their side can react to the world however they want, including with regular existential screaming freakouts, and it isn’t (in this case) fat ugly black fragility, because they’ll claim that’s not a thing.
If you imagine yourself to be a black/LGBT supremacist, and think from that perspective, everything these people do and say makes perfect sense. That's what they are.