I figured this out the other day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just as “White Privilege” is really class privilege sanitized for white progressives’ protection<\/a>…<\/p>\n\n\n\n …so, too, is “white fragility” in fact “blue fragility” – the inability of “blue-state” progressives to reconcile their class advantages with their white prog guilt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And both, also, are one sweet bit of grifting, if you got in on the ground floor<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n DiAngelo\u2019s \u201cWhite Fragility\u201d article was, in a sense, an epistemological exercise. It examined white not-knowing. When it was published in 2011 in The International Journal of Critical Pedagogy<\/a>, it reached the publication\u2019s niche audience. But three years later it was quoted<\/a> in Seattle\u2019s alternative newspaper The Stranger, during a fierce debate \u2014 with white defensiveness on full view \u2014 about the Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society\u2019s casting of white actors as Asians in a production of \u201cThe Mikado.\u201d \u201cThat changed my life,\u201d she said. The phrase \u201cwhite fragility\u201d went viral, and requests to speak started to soar; she expanded the article into a book and during the year preceding Covid-19 gave eight to 10 presentations a month,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n