François Lizotte’s Reviews > White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism > Status Update

“Yes, it’s uncomfortable to be confronted with an aspect of ourselves that we don’t like, but we can’t change what we refuse to see.”

“Today we have a cultural norm that insists we hide our racism from people of colour and deny it among ourselves, but not that we actually change it. In fact, we are socially penalized for challenging racism.”