#whitefragility — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #whitefragility, aggregated by home.social.
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'England has been the biggest victim of the colonial mindset. It is vulnerable to feeling nostalgic about the empire and wanting to feel superior to others... which makes it difficult to accept the reality'.
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#Churchill was the Prime Minister when the British caused a famine in Iran during WWII by forcibly requisitioning stores of grain there.
Churchill was also the Prime Minister when India exported food ignoring a famine in Bengal during WWII. But 50 peers organized "a row": https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jun/23/artwork-removed-national-portrait-gallery-helen-cammock-churchill-bengal-famine
#whiteFragility #London #India #Bangladesh #BritishEmpire #famine #Cromwell #history #HouseOfLords #WWII #UK
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How cultural institutions subtly silence and exclude writers, in the guise of concern or responsibility, to censor and “reshape[s] what other writers feel able to say, and what audiences are permitted to hear”.
Natasha Joyce, "Empty Words, Emptying Stages": https://www.lantana.net.au/words/empty-words-emptying-stages
#fragility #whiteFragility #culturalSafety #intersectionality #institutionsDeceive #coloniality #beliefs #censorship #conflation #nationalism #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #racism #IHRA #Australia #institutions #organizations
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"The Zionist produces and defines itself through the animalization of the Palestinian."
"Palestinian liberation is an impossibility in the current ordering of knowledge and being, similarly demanding through its realization the end of […] this world, and modernity."
This paper "posits that Palestinian freedom necessitates the creation of new worlds and [the getting rid of encumbering] constructs such as modernity and the Human."
https://fallingintoincandescence.com/2025/05/18/afropessimism-and-palestinian-liberation-an-essay/ by Scott Campbell @susurros
#pessimism #epistemology #grievability #othering #modernity #whiteness #whiteFragility #whiteSupremacy #quotes #PalestinianLivesMatter #Zionism #intellectualHistory #colonialism #genocide #ongoingNakba #brutalization #philosophy #europe #europeIsrael #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #SylviaWynter #praxis #raceMaking #entanglement