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Robin DiAngelo's bestseller just proves that
the woke intersectional left is equally unhealthily obsessed with race as the alt-right white nationalists they claim to despise.
'White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism' has recently ensconced itself in the global zeitgeist. Despite being written in 2018, its popularity has soared this year in the wake of the killing of George Floyd and global Black Lives Matter protests-cum-riots. It is currently on both the
New York Times and Amazon bestseller lists, no doubt making its author, Robin DiAngelo, a very wealthy woman.
I didn't want to read this book; Scandinavian detective novels are more my bag to be honest, but given the prominence of it, I thought it best to see what all the fuss was about. Thus I subjected myself to this exhausting, boring read, so you don't have to put yourself through it - or further line the pockets of Professor DiAngelo.
The book's argument is simple: if you are white, you are a racist. There is no way out of this fact as DiAngelo says that white people denying they are racist is simply further proof that they are racist. This, she argues, is the eponymous 'white fragility' which is a product of white people growing up in a society which is steeped in 'white supremacy'.
You may well have thought that white supremacy was confined to meetings of skinheads with swastika tattoos and rallies full of hooded lunatics setting fire to crosses. However, DiAngelo argues that Western society is built on white supremacy and as a result it pervades everything. Again,
denying that our society is inherently racist only serves to compound and protect that white supremacy on which it is built.
Comment: Does the 'cancelling' of professors accused on tweeting 'wrong think' now include a death sentence?
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