Commentary Like “black criminality,” “Jewish shrewdness,” “Italian mafiosity,” and “Irish drunkenness,” “white fragility” is a racist concept. Identifying a particular derogatory characteristic, or even a positive characteristic, with a racial or ethnic group, as if it accurately describes each and every individual in that category, is racist. Racism is treating people as members of racial or ethnic categories rather than as individuals with individual characteristics, motivations, and agency. Wait, I know that radical sociologists and race activists have redefined “racism” as “prejudice plus power” in order to advance their Marxist political goals of dividing and conquering. In this arbitrary formulation, only whites can be racist, because allegedly only whites have power, and all whites have power. Similarly, the same suspects claim that “reverse racism” doesn’t exist, because only those with power can be racist, an assertion by definition but not supported by historical or empirical fact. This is a semantic …