Robin DiAngelo is an American academic and the high priestess of wokedom. As an academic she specialises in the pseudo-sciences of critical discourse analysis and “whiteness studies”. She is the author of the regrettably bestselling book “White Fragility” and has gone into businesses selling diversity training courses to corporations.
DiAngelo’s central thesis is a lamentable one totally lacking in empirical evidence. It’s the idea that whites are inherently defensive about their status as white people and lash out with hostility when their perceived racial superiority is threatened. Scratch the surface of any white person and a savage racist will appear. This “white fragility” , DiAngelo writes, “is a state in which even a minimal challenge to the white position becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves including: argumentation, invalidation, silence, withdrawal and claims of being attacked and misunderstood. These moves function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and maintain control.”
An offender does not even have to be white. Non-white immigrants, she states, although they might not feel white and have stronger ethnic attachments, will have a “white experience externally” as long as they “pass as white”.
Not only “bad people” are white supremacists. We all are. We need to purge ourselves through daily exercises. As whites we are too privileged. It will be a struggle. Shades of the daily floggings Medieval Christians gave themselves to exorcise original sin. Whiteness is the contemporary original sin.
In arguing that white supremacy describes a socio-political system of domination based on racial categories, DiAngelo sees no issue with relying on this very same system of racial classification to justify her arguments. In short, she’s a racist.
Arguing that race and whiteness are social constructs and taking skin colour as the marker to define race is not that different from the 19th-century biological racism that linked race not with the colour of one’s skin but with blood type or the shape of one’s head.
Prior to the likes of Di’Angelo we were moving towards greater racial equality. I really couldn’t give a damn if a person was black or white 20 years ago. I never really noticed. Theories like this have heightened racial awareness and have therefore caused more racial tension, not less.
DiAngelo is a race baiting cunt.
Nominated by: Marvellous Mechanical Cunting Machine
