Pathological White Fragility and the Canadian Nation

Abstract

Abstract We are at a critical moment when we must confront the relationship between racial stress and white supremacy in order to provide tools and education to combat the radicalization of young white men in Canada. White fragility insulates structural white supremacy in contemporary ways that fuel resurgent far-Right nationalism by enabling fragile “whites” to define themselves against extreme acts of racial violence while protecting the social infrastructure of white supremacy and settler nationalism.