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Talking Racism

Why is racism so difficult to own and heal for fragile western and northern white people? Why is patriarchalism so difficult to own and inclusively heal for fragile ecofeminists against narcissistic straight white males? Why is nonbinary heterodoxuality so difficult to orthodoxically own and multiculturally heal for fragile binary authoritative normative straight monoculturalists against LGBTQ unwhite unpatriarchal rainbows celebrating spectral color? Why is win/win compassion so difficult to own and polypathically mend for fragile win/lose humanity EitherWin/OrLose dominating left-brain ego-centered survivalists, anxious about transparent differences vulnerable changes right-brain multicultural interdependent experience hope passion ecstasy? Why is Elitism so difficult to own and heal for fragile NonElite life=love breathing=joy positive-egomind = healthwealth-ecobodied systems, intersecting networks, polyphonic paradigms, ecological theo-meta-phors, trans-capitalistic wealth flow-values, trajectories health-trends? Why is monoculturing ego-privilege so difficult to own and heal for fragile western and northern white privileged people?

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Date: 11/18/2019 1:43:00 PM
White privilege? They hide the past, so people do not know the crimes.... apartheid, slavery, native indians, aboriginal, the raaj in India... I could go on..
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Date: 11/18/2019 2:44:00 PM
Good point. White privilege extends to who writes and publishes and edits history and who controls major media corporations. Specifically mentioned in WHite Fragility, by Robin Diangelo, which I just finished reading.

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