As the sales of Robin DiAngelo's “White Fragility” have grown, so too has criticism of her work. Columbia University professor John McWhorter says the bestselling book 'openly infantilized Black people' and 'simply dehumanized us.'
views people of color as"almost entirely powerless, and the few with influence do not wield it in the service of racial justice."The AtlanticHe argues that for"DiAngelo, the whole point is the suffering" of white people, who are"taught that pretty much anything they say or think is racist and thus antithetical to the good."'s Steve Inskeep about his criticism of the book and what he thinks is needed to change racist institutions.
And she's got about 25 proscriptions that make it so that any good white person is essentially muzzled. You just have to be quiet. You have said exactly what I believe. I think that what Robin DiAngelo is doing is well-intentioned, but I think ultimately, it's idle. Ultimately, the result of what she would create is a certain educated class of white person feeling better about themselves. And frankly, that's antithetical to her goal, because no matter how she wants it to go, people are going to think that they've done some kind of work.
It is racist, and I don't mean that Robin DiAngelo is a racist. I'm not calling her that. But I'm saying that if you write a book that teaches that Black people's feelings must be stepped around to an exquisitely sensitive degree that hasn't been required of any human beings, you're condescending to Black people. In supposing that Black people have no resilience, you are saying that Black people are unusually weak. You're saying that we are lesser.
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