"lly is blinded and confused and stressed to the point where focusing on anything other than resolving or understanding her own cognitive dissonance and upset is really really hard, and plus I think it may also be an educational/cultural point, that those of us who are white and activist are used to questioning things - that is how we understand, that is how we learn - we challenge, we discuss, we reflect someone's words back to them or try to relate it to something else we experienced"
THAT is white woman syndrome as I understand it. The point is that a person is thinking mainly about her own experience, only her own feelings, in a situation where it would be much more appropriate for her to be thinking about the feelings of those around her. Why is she doing this? Because she has been raised to believe she is the most important person in the room, metaphorically speaking.
I don't think all white women do this, nor do I even think most white women do it, but a very high percentage of privileged white women do; and if they are activists, they are more likely to do it, and think they are justified in doing so.
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THAT is white woman syndrome as I understand it. The point is that a person is thinking mainly about her own experience, only her own feelings, in a situation where it would be much more appropriate for her to be thinking about the feelings of those around her. Why is she doing this? Because she has been raised to believe she is the most important person in the room, metaphorically speaking.
I don't think all white women do this, nor do I even think most white women do it, but a very high percentage of privileged white women do; and if they are activists, they are more likely to do it, and think they are justified in doing so.