You're too generous. It's really just white people—the career non-victims, the only people who would consider victimhood something to cherish (a luxury, as you put it). It must be the novelty. Actually it's just another insidious way to keep the focus on white people and the conversation in limbo.

I know some nit-pickers dismiss Robin Di Angelo and her concept of "white fragility." I'm not one of them and I see the denial as delivering a good dose of misogyny along with its defensiveness. I'm glad to see the phrase slowly become part of of the language and the discourse. Once pointed out, it became something I couldn't un-see. It simultaneously names the condition and evokes it, which is what makes it powerful.

Hopefully someday it will begin to evoke humility.