Sally Kohn proposes to eliminate fragile white privilege by introducing eggshell privilege

There are some days when you really appreciate Sally Kohn and Joan Walsh both being on social media to share their thoughts. Coincidentally, these are the same days you find yourself wistfully nostalgic for 1978—1983, that peerless era of classic Cheech & Chong movies.

We admit our minds were blown after this take on racism from yesterday:

You guys, believing racism exists isn't racist. Just like believing climate change exists doesn't make you a climate.

— Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) July 24, 2015

But now we’ve been left with another Zen koan to solve.

Man, white people really resent having their privilege pointed out. So defensive & fragile. Maybe white should be called eggshell instead.

— Sally Kohn (@sallykohn) July 25, 2015

Is the point that whites are so fragile as to be like eggshells? Like how presidential candidate Martin O’Malley cracked under the pressure of a rowdy audience and said “all lives matter”?

Or is there some deeper meaning? Perhaps privileged white people like Kohn and Walsh gain more for themselves by writing these sorts of tweets than we do by reading them. Hmm …

https://twitter.com/NoahWehrman/status/625024222297878528

@NoahWehrman @sallykohn wouldn't be a Talk Show though, more like a Lecture Show

— Cornbread (@JerOHMee) July 25, 2015

@sallykohn is immune from this quagmire because of her #Leftism. She sounds more like she works in the paint dept at @HomeDepot, though.

— JCPinCompton (@JCPinCompton) July 25, 2015

Sally Kohn proposes to eliminate fragile white privilege by introducing eggshell privilege

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