You know, I live in an interesting state. Visually stunning, geologically active, and totally insane.
Washington, probably in its last moment of lucidity, put in the state constitution a pro gun rights section much more robust than the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. Then it got weird, thanks entirely to the urban population core along the I-5 corridor in Western Washington (the Wet Side, as we say). If you aren't from WA, pretty much any Washington city you've heard of (Seattle, Tacoma, Olympia) is split like a lot lizard by I-5.
The dry side, east of the Cascade Mountains, is agrarian and much more sparsely populated. These counties vote Republican, but on a national ticket these votes are in vain.
The Seattle City Council has an openly Socialist council woman, Kshama Sawant. Since her election the rest of the "progressive" city council has been scrambling further left to avoid being shown up.
I think you get the idea. Please note that what you are about to read is being offered by the CITY OF SEATTLE!
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How to cope with 'white fragility': Academic sells out her $60 workshops designed to improve Caucasians' 'low emotional tolerance for discussing racism'
*City of Seattle offering class to help people understand 'white fragility'
*The lectures are delivered by academic and author, Dr Robin DiAngelo
*Workshops are designed to help white people 'tolerate racial stress'
*'When white people are challenged in cross-racial situations, white fragility triggers a range of defensive moves,' an ad for the class reads
An academic and author is offering courses for white people teaching them how to cope with their 'white fragility' - and tickets for the lectures have sold out.
The City of Seattle is offering the class through its Office of Arts and Culture, with Dr. Robin DiAngelo taking students through the course.
The workshops, which cost $60 to attend and had its first four-hour session on Wednesday night, focus on: 'the specific way that racism manifests through White Fragility and provides the perspectives and skills needed for white people to have more constructive cross-racial interactions'.
The Office of Arts and Culture also defines 'white fragility' as: 'the inability for white people to tolerate racial stress.'
'White people in the U.S. live in a racially insular social environment,' a description on its website reads.
'Because these racial perspectives are so rarely challenged within this environment, white people have not had to develop the stamina needed to tolerate racial stress.
'When white people are challenged in cross-racial interactions, White Fragility triggers a range of defensive moves including: argumentation, invalidation, silence, withdrawal and claims of being attacked and unsafe.
'While these moves are effective at blocking the challenge and regaining a perception of racial equilibrium, they are also damaging to people of color and prevent white people from developing the skills needed to create a racially just society.'
Fans of DiAngelo have called her work and books on the topic of 'white fragility' 'profound' and 'very important'.
However, critics have slammed the class.
'60 dollars to be told how I'm terrible for being white? SIGN ME UP,' one person wrote.
'All these talks do is incite racial hatred against people of European heritage... it's very triggering and will eventually lead to violence against European-Americans, if it hasn't already. Very irresponsible,' another said.
'White lefties love telling other white people how terrible they are... I'm proud to be white. Why isn't that ok?' another added.
Robin DiAngelo received her PhD in Multicultural Education from the University of Washington in Seattle in 2004. She has also written a number of books on the issue of race, and has taught diversity and anti-racism courses.
Multicultural education? I put that in the same league as degrees in sociology and ethnic and gender studies. I hope Dr. DiAngelo and everyone in her and related fields has a mountain of student debt. Of course they do, they're the ones demanding the debt be forgiven. How about you select a degree that offers the chance of a well paying job that will allow you repay your student LOAN?
The class is sold out. I am not surprised. If only the Catholic Church sold indulgences as cheaply in the Middle Ages. When one of the fathers of modern sociology is Karl Marx, and he is so venerated in the textbooks, is it any wonder people with these useless degrees think as they do?
Why are they dangerous? One of the only places they can work is in our universities. You know, the same places we've worked so hard to be able to send our children.
The Cold War II is underway and the front line is your front yard.
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