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![high school: professionalpeachhunk:
[[This is Isaiah Hineās high school presentation on white fragility. Youāre not going to get a simpler explanation, in my opinion, so if youāre white you should really read this. Below are Isaiahās notes on each slide.]]
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What is White Fragility?
Robin DiAngelo is a professor at Westfield State University and author of What Does it Mean to Be White? Developing White Racial Literacy.
Iām sure youāve all seen these ādefensive movesā in action before. āI didnāt mean anything by itā āI wasnāt trying to be offensiveā āI have a black friendā āNot all white peopleā
People are often more worried about being called a racist than actually doing something racist. In America white people often donāt even have to consider race. They often think of themselves as āracelessā white is conditioned to be the norm and everyone else is considered āracedā or ācoloredā. White fragility allows white people to govern when and how race is discussed. White people expect to be educated on racism, and in a nice way.
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Why Is It A Bad Thing?
White people never learn as a result and are allowed to continue saying and doing racist things. White people prefer to hear these things from other white people but because other white people donāt know enough about racism, they cycle continues. When people of color do things like the BLACKLIVESMATTER movement, many white peoples responses were āall lives matterā this is white fragility. Proclaiming that black lives matter does not inherently mean that other lives donāt. This statement is made because society continually shows us that black lives donāt matter in america and these are the lives that need the affirming. We already know that white lives matter, it doesnāt need to be stated. White people are very used to being the center of things and when they arenāt it makes them uncomfortable.
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Why Does This Happen?
Most people donāt fully grasp the idea of systemic racism and that we live in a racist society that perpetuates racist ideas. We are socialized into white supremacy.](https://pics.onsizzle.com/professionalpeachhunk-this-is-isaiah-hineās-high-school-presentation-on-white-72508426.png)
![high school: sushinfood:
justamerplwithabox:
vivelafat:
prokopetz:
officialdeadparrot:
grellholmes:
elsajeni:
gunslingerannie:
justtkeepcalmm:
dean-and-his-pie:
fororchestra:
musicalmelody:
Fun Story: My director kept telling me and my tenor sax buddy to play softer. No matter what we did, it wasnāt soft enough for him. So getting frustrated, I told my buddy āDont play this time. Just fake itāĀ
Our Band Director then informed us we sounded perfect.Ā
To my readers: āpā means quiet, āppā means really quiet. Iāve never seen āppppā before haha.
On the contrast, āfā means loud, and āffffā probably means so loud you go unconscious.
I had ffff in a piece once and my conductor told me to play as loudly as physically possible without falling off my chairā¦
Me and my trombone buddies had āffffā and he sat next to me and played so hard that he fell out of his chair.
The lengths we go for music.
Okay yeah so I play the bass clarinet and the amount of air you have to move and the stiffness of the reed means it only has two settings and that is loud and louder, with an optional LOUDEST that includes a 50% probability of HORRIBLE CROAKING NOISE which is the bass equivalent of the ubiquitous clarinet shriek.
One day, when I was in concert band in high school, we got a new piece handed out for the first time, and there was a strange little commotion back in the tuba section ā whispering, and pointing at something in the music, and swatting at each otherās hands all shhh donāt call attention to it. And although they did attract the attention of basically everyone else in the band, they managed to avoid being noticed by the band director, who gave us a few minutes to look over our parts and then said, āAll right, letās run through it up to section A.ā
And here we are, cheerfully playing along, sounding reasonably competent ā but everyone, when they have the attention to spare, is keeping an eye on the tuba players. They donāt come in for the first eight measures or so, and then when theyĀ do come in, what we see is:
[stifled giggling]
[reeeeeeally deep breath]
[COLOSSAL FOGHORN NOISE]
The entire band stops dead, in the cacophonous kind of way that a band stops when it hasnāt actually been cued to stop. The band director doesnāt even say anything, just looks straight back at the tubas and makes a helpless sort of why gesture.
In unison, the tuba players defend themselves: āTHERE WERE FOUR FāS.ā
FFFF is not really a rational dynamic marking for any instrument, but for the love of all that is holy why would you put it in a tuba part.
This is the best band postĀ
Everyone else go home
Oh man, so I play trombone, and we got this piece called Florentiner Marsch by Julius Fucik, and we saw this
which is 8 fortes. We were shocked until,
that is 24 fortes who the fuck does that
Who does that?
This guy. Take a good look - that is the moustache of a man with nothing to lose.
Julius IdontgivaFucik
More like Julius Fuckit
Pyrozodās tags for this were too hilarious not to share](https://pics.onsizzle.com/sushinfood-justamerplwithabox-vivelafat-prokopetz-officialdeadparrot-grellholmes-elsajeni-gunslingerannie-justtkeepcalmm-dean-and-his-pie-69735260.png)
