Reddit mentions of White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Start here and follow the studies in the bibliography and footnotes. https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism-ebook/dp/B07638ZFN1/ref=sr_1_1?crid=T4C134YUNXYG&keywords=white+fragility&qid=1565641253&s=digital-text&sprefix=White+fr%2Caps%2C243&sr=1-1

I'll leave you with a passage from Dr. Robin Diangelo:
"I am white. I have spent years studying what it means to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet is deeply divided by race. This is what I have learned: Any white person living in the United States will develop opinions about race simply by swimming in the water of our culture. But mainstream sources–schools, textbooks, media–don’t provide us with the multiple perspectives we need. Yes, we will develop strong emotionally laden opinions, but they will not be informed opinions. Our socialization renders us racially illiterate. When you add a lack of humility to that illiteracy (because we don’t know what we don’t know), you get the break-down we so often see when trying to engage white people in meaningful conversations about race."

See, that's the point. You say "there's a fair level of certainty to a racist person being a bad person", and im saying since racism is a spectrum, EVERYONE is racist, so labeling some arbitrary spot on the racism spectrum the line that seperates "good" people and "bad" people is meaningless.

Edit: for those of you threatened by the assertion "Everyone is racist" I have a book suggestion for you: White Fragility It's written by a white person, for white people, and is about how to recognize your internal biases even if you believe you are one of the good ones.
If you want to move on from race bias blind spot expands the idea into other genres of bias.

If the author of this flyer means it in a serious way (and not a trolling way), I imagine what they mean is more about culture than race, like this:

• The typical culture of white people in the US has a lot of problems related to race and prejudice.
  
• This is about culture and how people live their lives, not about literal genetics or actual ethnic heritage.
  
• This is related to how the idea of a "white" race is made up - white people come from many heritages and backgrounds, but often have lost touch with those backgrounds because of pressures (both inside and outside families, both conscious and unconscious, both by choice and not by choice) to reject ethnicity and adopt whiteness.
  
• If you are a white person, it's important for you to think critically about how society has taught you to think about whiteness and people of color.
  
• You can learn to adapt your thinking - you can learn to be actively anti-racist, and work to change culture and support people of color.
  
• If you are a white person who is working to learn about this by reading books, studying in your classes, watching documentaries, listening to people, learning about your family history, etc, that's helpful - it's a way of being anti-racist and "anti-white".
  
  Hopefully that is helpful - I don't know if the author of the flyer really meant all that exactly, but it's a common set of ideas for people who are concerned about racism.
  
  There are some good books about this kind of topic if you're interested! I bet the UCSB library has some. For example, "So You Want to Talk About Race" by Ijeoma Oluo and "White Fragility" by Robin J. DiAngelo.

White Fragility is a very real problem. There's even a book about it. You should probably read it: White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07638ZFN1

Instead of worrying about the pervasiveness of whiteness, just read what you can do to be an ally.

https://racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/kivel3.pdf

In case you were really looking to read more in depth about whiteness. here are some books

https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism-ebook/

https://www.amazon.com/White-Rage-Unspoken-Racial-Divide-ebook/

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Kids-Sitting-Together-Cafeteria-ebook/

Since you believe race baiting is a bigger issue than actual racism I'm sure you'd be unwilling to buy a book about racism, but you can also get these books on libby (an app) with a library account.

Because the whopping majority of r/NBA readers are 20 yr old White guys - and as a result - there is a very high likelihood of people catching feelings aka White Fragility.

Here's the deal guys: Its not a crime to be white. Its not your fault that your ancestors or the ancestors of people who look like you committed heinouse acts towards humanity since before this countries inception on this land. It is your fault if you fail to acknowledge and help fight it today in 2019. At the very least, acknowledge we have this issues and open some dialogue and please stop with this 'What About-ism' that makes you guys look like you're not seeing the elephant in the room and unwilling to help people of color find true and lasting equity in a society where the rules are stacked against us.

EDIT - here's the survey https://infogram.com/rnba-demographics-1hzj4ow5ln972pw?live