Academic offers classes to help whites ‘tolerate racial stress’

An academic and author has created a workshop aimed at helping white Americans overcome the “fragility” which she argues makes whites inherently racist by blinding them of “the skills needed to create a racially just society.”

The classes, offered by the City of Seattle, are headed up by lecturer Robin DiAngelo.

Fox reported:

Lecturer Robin DiAngelo, who coined the term, is teaching the taxpayer-funded class for the city Officeof Arts and Culture. She defines white fragility as “a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves.”

Critics say it is just the latest attempt at spreading white guilt, following in the footsteps of concepts such as “white privilege.”

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The Office of Arts and Culture, which has a budget of $8.3 million, is holding two 4-hour classes, Aug. 17 and Sept. 7. Tickets are $60 and both lectures are sold out. Erika Lindsay, a city spokesperson, says staffers have been working on the event, but she could not pinpoint how much taxpayers are shelling out for the program.

According to reports, both classes sold out.

Here’s a description of the class from Seattle’s Office of Arts and Culture:

A 4-hour workshop focusing on the specific way that racism manifests through White Fragility (defined as the inability for white people to tolerate racial stress) and provides the perspectives and skills needed for white people to have more constructive cross-racial interactions. Dr. Robin DiAngelo is a former Associate Professor of Education and is a two-time winner of the Student’s Choice Award for Educator of the Year from the University of Washington. She was appointed to co-design the City of Seattle’s Race & Social Justice Initiative and has just completed the 2nd edition of her book, What Does it Mean to be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy.

The class fits neatly into the popular leftest narrative that all problems in the nation’s black communities can be traced to lingering white racism.

Racial hatred, according to this meme, can only be one-sided.

One of DiAngelo’s arguments about “white fragility” when it comes to racial issues hinges on the idea that white Americans simply don’t spend enough time around racial minorities. Meanwhile, earlier this month in Milwaukee…

Milwaukee Sheriff David Clark, who unlike DiAngelo is black, has a different explanation for what’s going wrong in America’s communities of color.

“Like Baltimore, like Ferguson, like New York and many other areas, where failed liberal government policies have led to high unemployment, chronic poverty, failing schools,” Clarke said before his city became the latest host to race riots. “This is what besets the Baltimore area. Ninety percent of the homicide victims in the Baltimore area are black as are 90% of the suspects.”

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