Post by old member on Aug 23, 2024 12:51:47 GMT -5
reason.com/2024/02/08/robin-diangelo-adam-david-white-supremacy/
www.robindiangelo.com/
Robin DiAngelo is an author, academic, and lecturer who specializes in antiracism. Her work gained attention following the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement, and she became a celebrated speaker and subject matter expert on white privilege. After the May 2020 death of George Floyd, her book, White Fragility, rocketed to the top of the bestseller list.
For DiAngelo, racism is not merely a set of negative attitudes about minorities—it is more akin to a spiritual illness that afflicts virtually all white people. Luckily for DiAngelo, she is selling the cure, in the form of her books, lectures, and other speaking engagements. The work is lucrative: the University of Connecticut, for instance, paid her $20,000 to teach at a seminar, and she reportedly charges between $10,000 and $15,000 for a few hours of work. (Or $320 per phone call!)
Despite many schools, local governments, nonprofits, and even some corporations throwing sacks of money at her, DiAngelo has accumulated some detractors. Columbia University's John McWhorter pilloried White Fragility as evincing a "dehumanizing condescension" toward black people. The Washington Post's Carlos Lozada accused DiAngelo of employing circular logic to argue "any dissent from White Fragility is itself white fragility." Nice Racism, the sequel to White Fragility that no one asked for, was similarly panned.
Robin DiAngelo explains that Michelangelo's Creation of Adam on the Sistine Chapel ceiling is the "single image" she uses to "capture the concept of white supremacy."
www.robindiangelo.com/
Robin DiAngelo is an author, academic, and lecturer who specializes in antiracism. Her work gained attention following the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement, and she became a celebrated speaker and subject matter expert on white privilege. After the May 2020 death of George Floyd, her book, White Fragility, rocketed to the top of the bestseller list.
For DiAngelo, racism is not merely a set of negative attitudes about minorities—it is more akin to a spiritual illness that afflicts virtually all white people. Luckily for DiAngelo, she is selling the cure, in the form of her books, lectures, and other speaking engagements. The work is lucrative: the University of Connecticut, for instance, paid her $20,000 to teach at a seminar, and she reportedly charges between $10,000 and $15,000 for a few hours of work. (Or $320 per phone call!)
Despite many schools, local governments, nonprofits, and even some corporations throwing sacks of money at her, DiAngelo has accumulated some detractors. Columbia University's John McWhorter pilloried White Fragility as evincing a "dehumanizing condescension" toward black people. The Washington Post's Carlos Lozada accused DiAngelo of employing circular logic to argue "any dissent from White Fragility is itself white fragility." Nice Racism, the sequel to White Fragility that no one asked for, was similarly panned.
Robin DiAngelo explains that Michelangelo's Creation of Adam on the Sistine Chapel ceiling is the "single image" she uses to "capture the concept of white supremacy."
