A Fragile Moment
The left could hand Trump four more years
When I first started writing about Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility in early June, I could find exactly one other writer who was willing to call out this “must-read” for the exquisite work of hucksterism it actually is.
That was Jonathan Church, who, in August 2018 wrote a piece for the website Quilette called “The Problem with ‘White Fragility’ Theory.”
Nearly two years passed before Church wrote another piece called, “Dear White People: Please Do Not Read Robin DiAngelo’s ‘White Fragility.”
Now, at long last, more writers, journalists, and authors as well as educators and just really smart thinkers are starting to shine a light on the cult of DiAngelo and her dangerous, absurd ideas. (Comparisons to Scientology and tent revivals are not uncommon.)
First, we have reporter, author, and Rolling Stone contributor Matt Taibbi’s scathing and brilliant dismantling of White Fragility, published on his website on June 28th. He writes:
“DiAngelo isn’t the first person to make a buck pushing tricked-up pseudo-intellectual horseshit as corporate wisdom, but she might be the first to do it selling Hitlerian race theory.”
Then there’s Columbia University professor John McWhorter’s July 15th piece for The…
