I fucking hate White People

[StarfishSaver]

203. Why do you think a concept can't be discussed unless it "creates more fairness"?

Often things need to be discussed, even if they're uncomfortable for some people, in order to even get to the point of dealing with them and then moving toward greater fairness.

Dismissing realities such as white fragility as mere constructs created by academics not only dismisses the real lived experience of people of color, it suggests a defensiveness and blind spot that is really the reason we're having difficulty getting more fairness.

The problem isn't that certain concepts are discussed. The problem is that certain people don't want to discuss anything that makes them uncomfortable.

All too often, black and brown folk are told to just sit in our own pain and frustration because expressing it might disrupt white people's comfort. And it's almost always white people telling us when and how we can talk about these things and when we have gone too far and need to shut up about it because we're being divisive.