Matt Taibbi is our best ally on the left - he addresses “White Fragility”

DiAngelo has really hit the jackpot with this scam of hers!!

Taibbi is on fire with this one.

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DiAngelo isn’t the first person to make a buck pushing tricked-up pseudo-intellectual horseshite as corporate wisdom, but she might be the first to do it selling Hitlerian race theory.

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This is spot on.

As is...

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DiAngelo instructs us there is nothing to be done here, except “strive to be less white.” To deny this theory, or to have the effrontery to sneak away from the tedium of DiAngelo’s lecturing – what she describes as “leaving the stress-inducing situation” – is to affirm her conception of white supremacy. This intellectual equivalent of the “ordeal by water” (if you float, you’re a witch) is orthodoxy across much of academia.

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Democratic Party leaders, pioneers of the costless gesture,

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Everyone should read this book. No, not to learn the drivel it espouses—but you learn the puritanical racism and bigotry that’s spreading in America today.

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This dingbat racialist cult, which has no art, music, literature, and certainly no comedy, is the vision of “progress” institutional America has chosen to endorse in the Trump era. Why? Maybe because it fits. It won’t hurt the business model of the news media, which for decades now has been monetizing division and has known how to profit from moral panics and witch hunts since before Fleet street discovered the Mod/Rocker wars.

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(White priests of antiracism like DiAngelo seem universally to be more awkward and clueless around minorities than your average Trump-supporting construction worker).

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Finally a summary for the TL/DR crowd.

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It takes a special kind of ignorant for an author to choose an example that illustrates the mathematical opposite of one’s intended point, but this isn’t uncommon in White Fragility, which may be the dumbest book ever written.

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