1/7] My first meme.

When I was halfway through my first reading of White Fragility, I got an uncomfortable feeling. That I was being coerced. Manipulated. But I couldn’t put my finger on why………

2/7] DiAngelo would say (and does say) that the uncomfortable feeling is my unconscious “Fragility”.

And therein lies the trap: Any disagreement can be (and is) framed as “fragility”.

3/7] If disagreement or questioning of a theory is proof of the theory [page 119], then we are not dealing with ideas or scholarship. We are dealing with a religion.

4/7] “Joe, you are possessed by the Devil.”
—“No, I’m not.”
“That’s exactly what people possessed by Devil say.”
—“I disagree.”
“Disagreement. Proof you are possessed by the Devil.”

5/7] “Joe, you have White Fragility.”
—“No, I don’t.”
“That’s exactly what people with White Fragility say.”
—“I disagree.”
“Disagreement. Proof of your White Fragility.”[page 119]

6/7] How can one know if your resistance comes from your own logic & intuition—or from The Devil?

How can one know if your resistance comes from your own logic & intuition—or from your “Fragility”?

7/7] Any scholarship that renders disagreement impossible is not scholarship. It’s religion.

And so, that inspired one of my first memes.

And also inspired “The Woke Temple”.