“a positive white identity is an impossible goal. White identity is inherently racist; white people do not exist outside the system of white supremacy.”
A positive white identity is impossible. Just dig that. I think I can see where at least some systemic racism exists. It exists in the thoughts and words of one of anti-racisms most well know authors and spokes persons.
“Thoughtful, instructive, and comprehensive . . . This slim book is impressive in its scope and complexity; DiAngelo provides a powerful lens for examining, and practical tools for grappling with, racism today.”— Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
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w/ Chris Rufo @ Senior Fellow, The Manhattan Institute -- Contributing Editor, City Journal
- When Rufo Met Reid
- The Art of Culture War
- Activist Journalist
- Critical Race Theory: Boardroom, College Campus, Neighborhood Preschool
- Bans, Censorship, Pedagogy, Choice
- Machiavellian Realism, Pyrrhic Victories
- Classical Liberal Caution, Libertarian Naïveté
- The "Last" Word
- Creed Wars and Culture Wars
- Welch Reviews Robin DiAngelo's "Nice Racism"
- "Doing The Work"
- Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable
- Pro Criminal Justice Reforms + Pro Putting People Under the Jail
- Broken Promises
Recorded: 6.30.2021
Published: 7.2.2021
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This one woman has managed so much so quickly it's actually staggering.
She has managed to:
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Raise racial consciousness among normal white people on a global scale (this has been utterly impossible since WW2 for obvious reasons).
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Helped to seriously undermine universalism / colour-blindness on the left-wing.
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Polarised a good proportion of the moderate right into reactionary, defensive "white identity" positions they would've never dreamed of a few years back (she would call this latent white supremacy, basically "you were always racist even if it didn't present itself prior to me racially abusing you").
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Pierced corporate America to the tune of millions of dollars and millions of minds (her work is unavoidable in most large corporates at this point).
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Pierced the education system in many parts of the West from early education right through to the (supposedly) elite universities.
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Been a more powerful accelerationist force than even people like the NZ shooter
Is there anyone even vaguely comparable to her? Genuinely I think she has done more for the far-right / white nationalism than any actual right-wing figure overtly trying to achieve that goal.
You can call it a racial "horseshoe theory" or whatever you like but I fundamentally do not buy that "white guilt" types and "white supremacists" are that far apart. They both view race as grounds for political collectivism and action rather than other factors. Guilt and pride are two sides of the same coin and you can definitely flip people from one to the other.
What she has done is get her claws in deep enough to open the kinds of conversations that will eventually serve the white nationalist right because a state of guilt is far harder and more painful to sustain than one of pride. Nobody wants to remain guilty and eventually the supremacist types will offer an escape outlet.
I think that in 10 years, as her white university educated "followers" get older and as (in my view) the US continues its decline they'll start to freak out a bit and realise just quite how much they've fucked up. At that point they'll be very susceptible to the positive "white identity" DiAngelo opposes rather than her negative one.
As for DiAngelo herself, she's definitely on the highway to getting totally #cancelled but she's so rich it wont materially matter. I think she's a legit true believer though, people call her a grifter but I think she has grifted so hard she actually buys it all herself - she'l
... keep reading on reddit ➡
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The queen of race grifting is now being cancelled herself for profiting off the pain of black people. All the white people that were made to read White Fragility for their diversity seminars must be looking at this and realizing they have failed yet again to meet the standards of wokeness.
These four individuals are described as the "anti-conformists of anti-racism."
