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The Rise and Fall of the Post-Modernists
White fragility is when white people respond to being told they're privileged and complicit in racism by doing one of three things, disagreeing, being quiet or going away. As the body of scholarship has grown and scholars have been able to point anyone who disagrees with them at a mounting body of work, the field's confidence in their own rightness has grown. This new phase of absolute certainty, clarity and refusal to accept disagreement as anything other than a wish to deny privilege began around ten years ago and has been rapidly escalating since 2015. Those original ideas of the first post-modernist's are now sacred creeds which cannot be doubted. We call this stage, rarefied postmodernism