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Know these differences and know yourselves. Let's be transparent.
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rp @leeseareneehall: "Leesa, what's the difference between white fragility and being highly sensitive?"
#WhiteFragility, a term coined by Dr. Robin DiAngelo, and #HighlySensitivePerson, a term coined by Dr. Elaine Aron, seem like they're similar because both refer to emotions.
Where they differ is how those emotions are used when doing anti-racism work.
When emotions are used to suppress, silence, or shut down conversation around racism and skin colour privilege, that's white fragility.
But when emotions are used to express grief around how the culture of oppression diminishes your intuition, empathy, and ability to recognize injustice, inequity, and inequality, that's being a highly sensitive person.
White fragility is rooted in control, dominance, and violence.
Reclaiming your sensitivities is rooted in humility, repentance, and repair.
The only way to move from fragility to being sensitive is to do the deep inner work.
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#diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems
Need Approval
Know these differences and know yourselves. Let's be transparent.
-
rp @leeseareneehall: "Leesa, what's the difference between white fragility and being highly sensitive?"
#WhiteFragility, a term coined by Dr. Robin DiAngelo, and #HighlySensitivePerson, a term coined by Dr. Elaine Aron, seem like they're similar because both refer to emotions.
Where they differ is how those emotions are used when doing anti-racism work.
When emotions are used to suppress, silence, or shut down conversation around racism and skin colour privilege, that's white fragility.
But when emotions are used to express grief around how the culture of oppression diminishes your intuition, empathy, and ability to recognize injustice, inequity, and inequality, that's being a highly sensitive person.
White fragility is rooted in control, dominance, and violence.
Reclaiming your sensitivities is rooted in humility, repentance, and repair.
The only way to move from fragility to being sensitive is to do the deep inner work.
.
.
.
#diversityandinclusion #nashvilleteacher #antiracism #highereducation #blackhistory #ally #teachershare #blackintheivory #whitefragility #changingthenarrative #ushistory #socialstudies #historyteacher #teacherproblems