Assumptions Quote by Robin DiAngelo

“The goal of my work is to make visible the inevitable racist assumptions held, and patterns displayed, by white people conditioned from living in a white supremacist culture.”

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

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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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As a social concept, 'white' is profound in its meaning. It means people who either come from or appear to come from Europe, but…

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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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