Enough of the psychobabble. Racism is not something to fix with therapy
Unconscious bias training is a lucrative industry, but it won't change consciously hostile policies
Are you racist? And, if so, how would I know? I used to think that a good gauge may be whether you call me a Paki", or assault me because of my skin colour, or deny me a job after seeing my name. But, no, these are just overt expressions of racism. Even if you show no hostility, or seek to discriminate, you're probably still racist. You just don't know it. Especially if you're white. And if you protest about being labelled a racist, you are merely revealing what the US academic and diversity trainer Robin DiAngelo describes in the title of her bestselling book as your white fragility".
You either accept your racism, or reveal your racism by not accepting it. Indeed, as DiAngelo explains, it's progressives" confronting racism who cause the most damage to people of colour" because they imagine that they are anti-racist. Racism is, as she puts it, unavoidable".
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