Originally posted by Annoyed
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You don't even know what any of those words mean.
White fragility is about how and why white people get all uppity every time the subject of racism comes up. White guilt is about how white people feel overly apologetic (as in apologizing, not justifying) and unnecessarily guilty regarding racism. Two different concepts and situations that affect white people to their determent.
White privilege is a way to describe how white people, in America at least, tend not to experience racism and its effects the way minorities do thus they are blinded to problems minorities face. They are "privileged" in that they don't have the cards stacked against them. Think of a poker game where minorities have unfavorable hands while white people (through no action on the behalf of white individuals) have favorable hands.
Yes these terms are misused and are poorly coined. But they each mean something totally different and they describe the white experience in America. White Guilt, the expectation of feeling bad. White fragility, being overly sensitive to discussions regarding race. White Privilege, being blind to the plight of minorities. Anything else added to these terms is political dogma being passed of as academic analysis. Don't blame the terms for that dogma, blame the political system that adds to that dogma to those terms.
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