Amen. DiAngelo's books are full of unsupported assertions that stoke liberal white guilt but offer little-to-nothing by way of a political strategy for achieving social and economic equality. What's more, the right-wing has a field day with some of the more absurd excerpts, and the result is that the entire social justice left is made to look absurd.
I do think she made a perfectly valid observation in her first book about how white people get defensive when confronted with accusations of racism, but okay, of course people get defensive about that, just like all humans get defensive when they feel themselves to be under attack. This defensiveness is why, I believe, so many corporate DEI seminars are ineffective or even backfire and why most conservatives would rather have a colonoscopy than attend one.
I think Taibbi goes too far in impugning her motives -- we really have no idea what her intentions are in promoting this line of thinking and she might be very well-intentioned. I'd rather focus on the merits of her ideas than speculate as to her motives.
Amen. DiAngelo's books are full of unsupported assertions that stoke liberal white guilt but offer little-to-nothing by way of a political strategy for achieving social and economic equality. What's more, the right-wing has a field day with some of the more absurd excerpts, and the result is that the entire social justice left is made to look absurd.
I do think she made a perfectly valid observation in her first book about how white people get defensive when confronted with accusations of racism, but okay, of course people get defensive about that, just like all humans get defensive when they feel themselves to be under attack. This defensiveness is why, I believe, so many corporate DEI seminars are ineffective or even backfire and why most conservatives would rather have a colonoscopy than attend one.
I think Taibbi goes too far in impugning her motives -- we really have no idea what her intentions are in promoting this line of thinking and she might be very well-intentioned. I'd rather focus on the merits of her ideas than speculate as to her motives.