Posted on 06/30/2021 10:53:12 AM PDT by Signalman
White guilt is big business. That’s what professional race hustler Robin DiAngelo learned after she published “White Fragility,” an infamous New York Times Bestseller that catapulted her, and her libelous claim that white people are inherently racist, to national prominence.
Not only did DiAngelo land segments with big corporate media outlets like CNN and MSNBC, she also netted large sums of money from speaking engagements, including a two-hour virtual event with Purdue University that cost the school $7,000, and an address at the publicly funded University of Wisconsin Madison that made DiAngelo a hefty $12,750, among other events.
Now DiAngelo is seeking to renew her notoriety — and bank account — with a new book titled “Nice Racism,” this time targeting a specific subsect of white people: her own audience.
“Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm” is all about how anti-racist white people are (like all other white people) still racist. A puff piece from CNN glowingly reports that in the book, “DiAngelo delivers a systematic takedown of what she calls “well-meaning Whiteness.”
Whiteness is perhaps the premier target of critical race theorists, with psychoanalyst Donald Moss calling it a “parasitic condition” and a “pathology” without a “permanent cure,” while deceased historian, Harvard lecturer, and member of the Communist Party Noel Ignatiev wrote “Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity” in a journal he founded titled “Race Traitor.”
While “whiteness” has frequently been targeted by critical race theorists, DiAngelo pushes the line even farther into dangerous absurdity. By deeming “well-meaning” whiteness as problematic, DiAngelo leads the honest reader to only two possible conclusions.
Either whiteness, and therefore white people, are irredeemably evil regardless of their individual intentions or behavior, a claim that appears to offer a post-modern, moralistic twist to the incredibly dangerous claims of innate racial inferiority that historically ungirds oppression, or well-intentioned white people simply need to unquestioningly cough up their money and guzzle the venomous snake oil that DiAngelo sells in order to finally break free from the sin that taints the circumstance of their very existence.
Neither outcome is suitable for any self-respecting person of any race, but unfortunately DiAngelo has correctly identified her audience. She’s well-prepared to cash in on the guilt of white progressives who iwill almost certainly line up, wallet in hand, as the high priestess of anti-racism teaches her servile laypeople how to root out their “nice racism.”
The real tragedy isn’t merely that DiAngelo is resorting to such a perverse way to make money. What’s truly startling is just how effective it is.
Apparently, the guilt complex of woke white progressives is so intense that many of them will pay to read DiAngelo, a far-left white person, malign the whiteness of far-left white white people in a 224-page audit of the internalized white supremacy that allegedly resides in the collective psyches of woke white progressives.
After all, $17.46 and hours spent reading in a trendy Portland coffee shop is a small price to pay to absolve themselves, even just temporarily, of their crippling white guilt. As if more were needed, this is further proof the “anti-racist” movement is a lucrative, quasi-religious cult that demands repentance without ever offering forgiveness. If it did, anti-white race hustlers like DiAngelo would be out of a job as her audience grew tired of their sycophancy and her relentless claims of their innate moral inferiority due to being born into the “wrong” skin color.
Such a future is unlikely, however, with data confirming the observation that white liberals are actively self hating, as the only cross-section of racial and political identity that has a negative rather than positive in-group bias.
DiAngelo disputes the contention that she pushes and profits from white guilt, remarking in her interview with CNN that “I think people who say that I am seeking to invoke guilt are willfully misreading my work. I am very clear that I am not interested in guilt, very clear that I have absorbed racist ideology.”
But DiAngelo’s entire career, not to mention her status as a public figure, is dependent on maintaining and fostering this debilitating sense of white guilt and ethno-masochism among her audience.
The psychological disposition of white progressives also makes it all too easy for grifters like DiAngelo to profit off pushing the most radically anti-white aspects of critical race theory, such as the claim that racism is the unique defining quality of white people, always confident that such sentiments will find a home among the white progressives who are desperate to assert just how anti-racist they are.
This ethno-masochism also shields DiAngelo from a great deal of criticism, allowing her to rely on this guilt to preemptively neutralize any form of resistance while pathologizing any that does arise as a result of “white fragility.”
It is difficult to overstate the absolute cruelty of DiAngelo’s business model, which depends on inculcating a profound sense of ethno masochism among her audience while then swooping in to offer temporary relief for a hefty price. But the biggest cost isn’t monetary; it can’t be measured in the price tags of books or in the speaking fees of public engagements.
To go along with DiAngelo’s vicious attempt to indict an entire race as uniquely evil is
Who?
Who?
The thing is, white liberals are the worst racists there are.
“Who”?
I said the same thing.
Never heard of her (I’m assuming).
CRT/woke = cultural eugenics
Man, if people are stupid enough, you can sell total BS to them.
Let me get this straight. She’s white. Apologizes for something she didn’t do. Can’t make this up. Wikipedia’s description of her:
Robin Jeanne DiAngelo (née Taylor, born September 8, 1956)[1] is an American author, consultant, and facilitator working in the fields of critical discourse analysis and whiteness studies.(Saye do what?)
A whole book to AVOID saying the truth:
“White fragility” is the label used for white who take offense for being wrongly accused of being racist.
Just like the left tries to say conservatives who respond to lefty crap as “triggered.” They do not understand the word.
Kill Whitey, but buy my book first.
She looks white and guilty.
Another fragile bully.
I don’t understand how people fall for this BS. The propensity for self-loathing alludes me. Why acquiesce to their ramblings rather than stand up for yourself?
My professor in college invented Kwanzaa, so I’m in the clear
Both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King condemned white liberals........Annnnd that was way back in the 60’s.....
She’s right you know. (Ahem, hold your fire a moment.) I think you’d find after only a few moments of cursory research that humans tend to be very tribal and consider almost everybody outside their family and especially outside the tribe as “the other.” Which tendency is magnified enormously when “the other’s” skin signals an outsider at a mere glance. Within races, the tribalism is just as prominent, which is why gangs use signs and colors to identify their tribe because skin shades are not reliable as indicators when competing gangs are of the same race.
Some things are just human nature. Acknowledge. Live with it.
I have a 7-month-old granddaughter, whom I watch closely. The other day, Grams displayed her doll to her from across the room, and in the doll’s hands was a toy of my little love. Who promptly crawled to Grams and snatched the toy away while wearing a stern look. Different toya? Same result. I promise you, nobody has ever taught that little angel of mine to be selfish and territorial. Nobody has ever snatched a toy from her, bc we treat her like the gift from God that she is. But she is a little human, endowed with all our human flaws (bc of Original Sin?). Who knows why? Whaddya think? White privilege? Nah. Human nature.
Look, this author who writes about race is making a boatload of money on a “Dog-bites-woman” phenomenon. She deserves to be mocked and then ignored.
So ironic. Her audience are post-Christian non-believers who almost certainly do not believe in the doctrine of original sin. Yet they believe a variant of that doctrine when they claim all white people are born racists. As an answer, they seem to have substituted the redemption of Christ with the redemption of Robin - for $17.46 a copy.
It would be interesting to see where she lives.
My guess? In an exclusive all-White enclave without any diversity or inclusion.
I could be wrong but I don’t think I am.
Typical virtue-signaling hypocrite - do as I say, not as I do.
If it is acceptable to call whites racist, then it follows that it is acceptable to call blacks lazy. You should not stereotype by race because it is racist. Her whole book is racist tripe.
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