Is white fragility real?

White Fragility has an epistemological problem

Question: Is white fragility real?
Position‹2 of 2: No, white fragility does not exist
Argument‹6 of 9›: White Fragility has an epistemological problem

White fragility bases its thesis on implicit bias research which not conclusive and does not employ rigor in hypothesis testing. The thesis is unfalsifiable and is therefore nonscientific, like Freud's psychoanalytic insights into the unconscious mind from the faulty premise of the Oedipus complex.

The argument

Sigmund Frued and Carl Jung establish that Human Beings deeply have inherent biases as a consequence of their environment.When a society perpetuates a certain narrative that perpetuates, hate, inequality and conflict.This automatically then perpetuates a norm that is highly segregative, alienating and one that normalises hate within the socie ty.

Context

The context of this problem can be predicated on the analysis by Di Angelo that it is an epistemological problem as it perpetuates institutional racism .

Premises

[P1]Freud and Jung establish that humans inherit biases as a consequence of their social environment. [P2] When a society's dominant narrative normalizes hate, inequality, and segregation, those biases become embedded as societal norms rather than individual psychological fragilities. [P3] The concept of 'white fragility' misattributes these socially-conditioned biases to an individual emotional defensiveness, ignoring their structural origin. [C] Therefore, white fragility has an epistemological problem and does not exist as a coherent concept.

Counter-arguments

This is a form of idealism that perpetuates reverse-hate.That is the solution to fire is fire, where people will grow with the inherent belief that prejudice against the white is the only solution.This exacerbates hate rather than integration between the black and white.It also ideally establishes that white people are born to be evil.

Rejecting the premises

The essence of assessing Race as an epistemological problem is to nurture decolonisation and rigorous interrogation, internalisation and negotiation.This eliminates the constant neglect and rejection to be informed about race, the historical prejudices, the existing long-lasting conflicts amongst the Black and the white.

Framing

The inherent crisis in viewing race as an epistemological crisis,is as a result of idealism and hypothetical bias.There is no objective analysis and outcome that establishes truth.Secondly, the finding is built on statistical prejudice that is as a result of historical conflict. It also lays claims and criticisms on the source of the race issue being the epistemological bias but with no sufficient empirical and pragmatic finding.