Europe Quote by Robin DiAngelo

“As a social concept, 'white' is profound in its meaning. It means people who either come from or appear to come from Europe, but it's necessarily a construct of oppression.”

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We whites who position ourselves as liberal often opt to protect what we perceive as our moral reputationsrather than recognize or change our participation…

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Denying that race matters is irrational in the face of segregation and all of the other forms of obvious racial inequity in society... Maintaining…

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White people are very wily when it comes to race. We will do everything that we can to get out from under the idea…

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This is what I have learned: Any white person living in the United States will develop opinions about race simply by swimming in the…

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Most white people cannot answer the question, 'What does it mean to be white?' with any depth or complexity.

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A fundamental but very challenging part of my work is moving white people from an individual understanding of racism - i.e. only some people…

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For a lot of white people, just suggesting that being white has meaning will trigger a deep, defensive response. And that defensiveness serves to…

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Whites often respond defensively when linked to other whites as a group or 'accused' of collectively benefiting from racism, because as individuals, each white…

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This is one of the most effective adaptations of racism over time - that we can think of racism as only something that individuals…

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Like a nontechnical user trying to understand a technical problem, our racial illiteracy limits our ability to have meaningful conversations about race.

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Human beings can only make sense of the world through the lens they were socialized to make sense of it through.

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White people in North America live in a social environment that protects and insulates them from race-based stress. This insulated environment of racial protection…

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