This cleverly edited video (click the image), attributed to Robert Weide and Larry David, intersperses excerpts from a Robin DiAngelo lecture with a podcast where DiAngelo’s book was discussed by Glenn Loury and John McWhorter (the DiAngelo video was not part of the podcast).
For anyone offended by this video, I’d recommend that you take the time to read DiAngelo’s book so you can see for yourself that she is in need of some serious coaching and should not be lecturing others on how to deal with race issues.
Here is the entire July 2 podcast featuring Glenn Loury and John McWhorter. Topic: “The Unraveling.” As always Loury and McWhorter offer an invigorating analysis of Woke culture.
I also posted this on FB: I received this comment and I replied as follows:
Thach Thao Nguyen: We must consider what is required to pass muster as a non-fragile white person. Refer to a “bad neighborhood,” and you’re using code for Black; call it a “Black neighborhood,” and you’re a racist; by DiAngelo’s logic, you are not to describe such neighborhoods at all, even in your own head. You must not ask Black people about their experiences and feelings, because it isn’t their responsibility to educate you. Instead, you must consult books and websites. Never mind that upon doing this you will be accused of holding actual Black people at a remove, reading the wrong sources, or drawing the wrong lessons from them. You must never cry in Black people’s presence as you explore racism, not even in sympathy, because then all the attention goes to you instead of Black people. If you object to any of the “feedback” that DiAngelo offers you about your racism, you are engaging in a type of bullying “whose function is to obscure racism, protect white dominance, and regain white equilibrium.””
She is really crazy. 😃 I know that kind of people. Whenever someone says that he did or that for a certain group (like donating to a dog rescue group, helping refugees, etc) they will descend like vultures upon him and lecture him why he neglected this or that group and why he didn’t do more ((“and what about the other animals group? And what about people with disabilities? Don’t they also deserve your help?). I once saw someone talk about growing up in poverty in the US (I think she mentioned no heating, electricity, not enough food, going hungry every day and so on) and then someone just had to say something like, you don’t know what poverty is, poverty in the States would be considered being wealthy in some other countries.
Nothing is ever good enough in their eyes. They claim to be compassionate, while in fact, they are jerks.
Erich:
One word; Bullying.
More words: DiAngelo has become empowered by two things, as I see it: A) by tapping into the good-heartedness of people who are not used to being bullied. B) , she has figured out that there are a lot of people who will do almost anything to avoid being chastised, being called insensitive or being called racist, even when they are not being racist in the least. There are tons of people out there who simply are not comfortable sticking up for themselves and afraid to draw lines based on principles. They will back up and and again and again, not comfortable drawing a line in the sand. I’ve seen it so often when I represent consumers who were bullied into spending 4 hours in a sales session and ten end up buying a time share because they don’t want to be called stupid. I think that most normal people worry about whether they are being perfectly fair, so most of us have this vulnerability and its good to have that when we are in the company of like-minded people. But when there are wolves among the sheep, these people don’t know what to do. What the Woke have also mastered is a complete new vocabulary of words that have new meanings or no meaning or the opposite of the usual meaning. People get intimidated when they are exposed to this new vocabulary, which has been developed for decades in critical studies departments. For instance, “anti-racism” does not mean that the person is opposed to racism. It actually means that they talk about race ALL THE TIME – – -CONSTANTLY, and that their solutions to every race problem is to shove people into “white” and “black” boxes and then treat them differently. In short, their solution to racism is more racism. This is.unhealthy, unsustainable and it will tear this shred this country. I see people who are very smart and usually willing to speak up. They complain to me in private, repeatedly. They know that this is bullying and wrong, but they are afraid to speak up because they are worried about being called a racist when they are good-hearted people and the person on the attack is the racist. I highly recommend that anyone concerns should dig into the terminology of the Woke so that they are prepared to discuss issues out in public once again. Here’s the link to the New Discourses Glossary.