The latest report from the team at Minding the Campus from part of the White Fragility Symposium, provides a forensic account of the flaws in concepts central to the ‘white fragility’ assertion:
Supporters of the ‘unconscious racism’ thesis essentially argue that negative associations held by whites about non-whites, as revealed by the race IAT: (a) are not consciously accessible to whites in non-IAT experimental conditions, (b) operate in the real world outside of a person’s individual awareness, and (c) take the form of clear racial discrimination, behavior which can be clearly documented as having negative or harmful effects on non-white individuals. Blanton and Jaccard essentially argue that no social-psychological research (up to the date of their article’s publication) comes close to supporting any of these assertions