Thank you for this thoughtful piece. I read Diangelo’s White Fragility several years ago and found it disturbing that she largely backed up her thesis with anecdotes and assumptions about what motivates others. Your essay captured the essence of what it’s like for a young person to learn that the world can be cruel and how that person gr…
Thank you for this thoughtful piece. I read Diangelo’s White Fragility several years ago and found it disturbing that she largely backed up her thesis with anecdotes and assumptions about what motivates others. Your essay captured the essence of what it’s like for a young person to learn that the world can be cruel and how that person grows into their role as an adult in righting societal wrongs. Despite Diangelo’s castigation of you and everyone who looks like you, I think your account is an excellent contribution to this complex topic.
In my considered opinion, Robin di Angelo is basically a bully. Douglas Murray refers to her as "the Miss Whiplash of antiracism" in his recent book, The War on the West, which I'd recommend as a bracing corrective to her line of rhetoric.
I came away from reading White Fragility with the sense that it was basically Robin Di Angelo projecting her own attitudes about race onto everyone else. When you uniformly read mean-spirited racial prejudice into the minds of all others, it simply means that your own mind dwells in that mean-spirited framing of people not like you. This is why she couldn’t imagine any pathway to racial harmony.
Thank you for this thoughtful piece. I read Diangelo’s White Fragility several years ago and found it disturbing that she largely backed up her thesis with anecdotes and assumptions about what motivates others. Your essay captured the essence of what it’s like for a young person to learn that the world can be cruel and how that person grows into their role as an adult in righting societal wrongs. Despite Diangelo’s castigation of you and everyone who looks like you, I think your account is an excellent contribution to this complex topic.
In my considered opinion, Robin di Angelo is basically a bully. Douglas Murray refers to her as "the Miss Whiplash of antiracism" in his recent book, The War on the West, which I'd recommend as a bracing corrective to her line of rhetoric.
I came away from reading White Fragility with the sense that it was basically Robin Di Angelo projecting her own attitudes about race onto everyone else. When you uniformly read mean-spirited racial prejudice into the minds of all others, it simply means that your own mind dwells in that mean-spirited framing of people not like you. This is why she couldn’t imagine any pathway to racial harmony.