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• ‟ Until white people understand that racism is embedded in everything, including our consciousness and socialisation, then we cannot go forward.

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• ‟ The antidote to white fragility is ongoing and lifelong and includes sustained engagement, humility, and education.

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• ‟ The question that white people need to ask ourselves is not if we were shaped by the forces of racism, but how.

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• ‟ Whiteness is dynamic, relational, and operating at all times and on myriad levels. These processes and practices include basic rights, values, beliefs, perspectives and experiences purported to be commonly shared by all but which are actually only consistently afforded to white people.

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• ‟ Racism has two primary functions: the oppression of people of color, which most people recognize, but also the simultaneous elevation of white people. You can't hold one group down without lifting the other up.

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• ‟ White consciousness is deeply anti-black, and that's for progressives and conservatives.

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• ‟ The language of violence that many whites use to describe anti-racist endeavors is not without significance, as it is another example of how white fragility distorts reality.

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• ‟ I have spent years studying what it means to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race.

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• ‟ Many of us actively working to interrupt racism continually hear complaints about the 'gotcha' culture of white anti-racism. There is a stereotype that we are looking for every incident we can find so we can spring out, point our fingers, and shout, 'You're a racist!'

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• ‟ Most white people cannot answer the question, 'What does it mean to be white?' with any depth or complexity.

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• ‟ There's a lot of ways that white women undermine women of color, and black women in particular.

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• ‟ I have found that the only way to give feedback without triggering white fragility is not to give it at all.

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• ‟ People of color understand what it means to be white more than I ever will.

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• ‟ White fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves.

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• ‟ White fragility doesn't always manifest in overt ways; silence and withdrawal are also functions of fragility.

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• ‟ While everyone has racial bias, I reserve the word 'racist' to describe the bias that white people have - our collective bias is backed by institutional power.

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• ‟ As a social concept, 'white' is profound in its meaning. It means people who either come from or appear to come from Europe, but it's necessarily a construct of oppression.

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• ‟ Whites often respond defensively when linked to other whites as a group or 'accused' of collectively benefiting from racism, because as individuals, each white person is 'different' from any other white person and expects to be seen as such.

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