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‘White Fragility’ Author: ‘People of Color Need to Get Away From White People’

Speaking Monday in a group chat, White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo advocated for racial segregation, prompting conservatives to note that “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams was vilified and reportedly lost 80% of his income after making essentially the same proposition from the opposite perspective.

Adams had reacted to a Rasmussen Reports poll that asked whether people agreed with the statement “It’s OK to be white.” 26% of black respondents disagreed and 21% said they were not sure, prompting Adams to state, “If nearly half of all blacks are not OK with white people … that’s a hate group.”

“And I don’t want anything to do with them,” Adams continued. “And based on how things are going, the best advice I could give to white people is to get the hell away from black people. Just get the f*** away. Wherever you have to go, just get away. ’Cause there’s no fixing this. This can’t be fixed.”

DiAngelo declared, “I think people of color need to get away from white people and have some community with each other. And I’ll let that go and maybe see if anyone else wants to pick it up.”

Anti-woke warrior Christopher Rufo noted the incongruity, writing, “It’s amazing that, for an entire year, the libs scrambled to find their moral voice and settled on Ibram Kendi and Robin DiAngelo, who turned out to be two of the greatest midwits of our time.”

Commentator Dave Rubin chimed in, “Isn’t this what they cancelled @ScottAdamsSays for?!”

That prompted Adams to respond, “You’re not supposed to notice.”

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Robin DiAngelo

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https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/robin-diangelo/

Some of DiAngelo’s insights from her 2018 book include the following:

  • “Whiteness rests upon a foundational premise: the definition of whites as the norm or standard for human, and people of color as a deviation from that norm.”
  • “We consider a challenge to our racial worldviews as a challenge to our very identities as good, moral people.”
  • “It is white people’s responsibility to be less fragile; people of color don’t need to twist themselves into knots trying to navigate us as painlessly as possible.”
  • “All progress we have made in the realm of civil rights has been accomplished through identity politics…. This book is unapologetically rooted in identity politics.”

To learn more about Robin DiAngelo, click on her profile link above.