Robin DiAngelo Fan Club

This is a fan club Twitter account for the brilliant Dr. Robin DiAngelo. Author of White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

[Robin DiAngelo Fan Club @DiangeloClub]

"The term identity politics refers to the focus on the barriers specific groups face in their struggle for equality. We have yet to achieve our founding principle, but any gains we have made thus far have come through identity politics.”

[Robin DiAngelo Fan Club @DiangeloClub]

“Race scholars use the term white supremacy to describe a sociopolitical economic system of domination based on racial categories that benefits those defined and perceived as white. This system of structural power privileges, centralizes, and elevates white people as a group."

[Robin DiAngelo Fan Club @DiangeloClub]

“The United States was founded on the principle that all people are created equal. Yet the nation began with the attempted genocide of Indigenous people and the theft of their land. American wealth was built on the labor of kidnapped and enslaved Africans and their descendants."

[Robin DiAngelo Fan Club @DiangeloClub]

“There is a difference between agreement and understanding: When discussing complex social and institutional dynamics such as racism, consider whether 'I don't agree' may actually mean 'I don't understand.'"

[Robin DiAngelo Fan Club @DiangeloClub]

“People of color may also hold prejudices and discriminate against white people, but they lack the social and institutional power that transforms their prejudice and discrimination into racism; the impact of their prejudice on whites is temporary and contextual.”

[Robin DiAngelo Fan Club @DiangeloClub]

“We have a deep interest in denying the forms of oppression which benefit us.”

[Robin DiAngelo Fan Club @DiangeloClub]

“I am often asked if I think the younger generation is less racist. No, I don't. In some ways, racism's adaptations over time are more sinister than concrete rules such as Jim Crow.”

[Robin DiAngelo Fan Club @DiangeloClub]

“Today we have a cultural norm that insists we hide our racism from people of color and deny it among ourselves, but not that we actually challenge it. In fact, we are socially penalized for challenging racism.”

[Robin DiAngelo Fan Club @DiangeloClub]

“All systems of oppression are adaptive; they can withstand and adjust to challenges and still maintain inequality.”

[Robin DiAngelo Fan Club @DiangeloClub]

“White fragility functions as a form of bullying; I am going to make it so miserable for you to confront me—no matter how diplomatically you try to do so—that you will simply back off, give up, and never raise the issue again.”

[Robin DiAngelo Fan Club @DiangeloClub]

"Pause for a moment and consider the profundity of this message: we are taught that we lose nothing of value through racial segregation. Consider the message we send to our children—as well as to children of color—when we describe white segregation as good.”

[Robin DiAngelo Fan Club @DiangeloClub]

“While speaking up against these explicitly racist actions is critical, we must also be careful not to use them to keep ourselves on the “good” side of a false binary.”

[Brenda Torres Siragusa @BrendaSiragusa]

We have to be willing to get uncomfortable. Step Up, Step In!

[Robin DiAngelo Fan Club @DiangeloClub]

“Authentic antiracism is rarely comfortable. Discomfort is key to my growth and thus desirable.”

[Brenda Torres Siragusa @BrendaSiragusa]

It’s so much more then explicit. Be willing to explore your unconscious bias.

[Robin DiAngelo Fan Club @DiangeloClub]

“It’s been said that racism is so American that when we protest racism, some assume we’re protesting America.”

[Robin DiAngelo Fan Club @DiangeloClub]

“The simplistic idea that racism is limited to individual intentional acts committed by unkind people is at the root of virtually all white defensiveness on this topic.”

[Robin DiAngelo Fan Club @DiangeloClub]

“White fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress in the habitus becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves. .... These behaviors, in turn, reinstate white racial equilibrium.”

[Robin DiAngelo Fan Club @DiangeloClub]

“Inequity can occur simply through homogeneity; if I am not aware of the barriers you face, then I won’t see them, much less be motivated to remove them. Nor will I be motivated to remove the barriers if they provide an advantage to which I feel entitled.”

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