Posted on 07/16/2020 9:54:43 AM PDT by TBP
DiAngelo is an education professor and—most prominently today—a diversity consultant who argues that whites in America must face the racist bias implanted in them by a racist society. Their resistance to acknowledging this, she maintains, constitutes a “white fragility” that they must overcome in order for meaningful progress on both interpersonal and societal racism to happen.
I am not convinced. Rather, I have learned that one of America’s favorite advice books of the moment is actually a racist tract. Despite the sincere intentions of its author, the book diminishes Black people in the name of dignifying us. This is unintentional, of course, like the racism DiAngelo sees in all whites. Still, the book is pernicious because of the authority that its author has been granted over the way innocent readers think.
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How does telling some professor that they are full of it make me “fragile”? That’s more of that 2+2=3 nonsense that a white dude like me is too dumb to grasp.
Let’s not be too impressed with this - it sounds more like McWhorter is attacking the author for being a white grifter. If the same book had a white author, he’d likely be applauding it.
I thought it was interessting how he argues that DiAngelo and those who follow her ar eracists who demean blacks as well as whites.
My only objection is that McWhorter insists on giving the likes of DiAngelo credit for good intentions.
DiAngelo is an education professor and—most prominently today—a diversity consultant
She is a douchebag
If the same book had a white author, he’d likely be applauding it.
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