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white fragility
[ hwahyt fruh-jil-i-tee, wahyt ]
noun
- the tendency among members of the dominant white cultural group to have a defensive, wounded, angry, or dismissive response to evidence of racism.
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of white fragility1
Example Sentences
Democrats are guaranteed to lose their seat in West Virginia, where retiring independent Joe Manchin will be replaced by popular Gov. Jim Justice unless the country is struck by an asteroid or Justice is photographed drinking a Bud Light while reading a copy of White Fragility.
Nevertheless, the practice survived those attacks born from misconceptions due to white fragility.
Singer also targeted her 鈥淩HONY鈥 Black cast member, Eboni K. Williams, after the latter accused Luann de Lesseps of 鈥渨hite fragility.鈥
The expanding lexicon around bias and privilege includes terms like 鈥渨hite fragility鈥 or 鈥渨hite tears,鈥 referring to white people鈥檚 defensive refusal to fully engage with accountability; other phrases like 鈥渧irtue signaling,鈥 being 鈥渁 Karen鈥 or 鈥減erformative allyship鈥 underline the difference between honest and fake engagement with questions of ethics, morality and responsibility.
It's white fragility, but it's also straight fragility.
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