Fragile White Ego Syndrome is a personality disorder common in North America. Patients base part of their self-worth on pride in being white – but it is a false pride that is easily threatened and therefore fragile. It is a desperate front, a house of cards, that must be defended at all costs.
To maintain this fragile white ego patients will:
- Play up white accomplishments (inventions, “civilization”, IQ scores, freeing the slaves, etc)
- Play down, excuse or deny white evils (slavery, genocide, colonialism, racism, etc)
They do the opposite when it comes to people of colour:
- Play up the faults of people of colour, both real and imagined (poverty, crime, violence, out-of-wedlock births, pathologies)
- Play down the successes of people of colour (overlook everything they invented or, where possible, claim them as honorary whites)
This causes a reality distortion field which makes whites seem better than they are and people…
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