Oct 16·edited 18 hrs agoLiked by Joseph (Jake) Klein
An outstanding article Jake that should be required reading for every academic and student in this country! Robin DiAngelo is not only a race hustler and a grifter, she’s a lazy one at that. She plundered the works of Terry, Bidol and Katz as well repackaging James Edler’s idea of white consciousness as white fragility and stealing his distancing behaviors concept. Pretty much nothing she wrote was an original idea she came up with. I am no fan of Matt Walsh, but I believe he did his country a great service with his new documentary “Am I Racist?” which exposes the bizarre world of white anti-racism training. Walsh embarrassed DiAngelo and proved what a fraud she is. Your article shows very well that she is a serial plagiarist and that the toxic ideas she advocates have been around for a long time. It’s important people know this history so we can show why it’s so dangerous and how we can push back against it. Indeed the pendulum is beginning slowly, to swing the other way in our society on identity politics and race essentialism and Kendi and now DiAngelo too, are being exposed. I’m glad of it frankly. The United States has come a long way and minority groups overall are doing quite well in this country. We should celebrate NOT dismiss that progress. It’s time for Terry, Bidol, Katz, and Edler’s ideas to be placed in the rubbish bin of history where they belong! They should be replaced with the colorblindness and universalism advocated by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement! DiAngelo has been thoroughly discredited and embarrassed and I hope her career will soon be coming to an end. DiAngelo and Kendi are NOT heroes! They have nothing on the likes of MLK, Malcolm X, Bayard Rustin, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, John Lewis, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, C.T. Vivian, Diane Nash, James Farmer, and Julian Bond! Nor the courage of the Freedom Riders or those who participated in the 1965 March from Selma to Montgomery. I think where we are on race relations today can best be summed up by a statement then-Senator Barack Obama made in the Illinois state house “The Moses generation did the work to get us 90% of the way, but we the Joshua generation still have that 10% to go.” I think that 10% is largely because of the folks on the far-left like DiAngelo, Kendi and Saira Rao and the folks on the far-right like Richard Spencer, David Duke and Nick Fuentes.
An outstanding article Jake that should be required reading for every academic and student in this country! Robin DiAngelo is not only a race hustler and a grifter, she’s a lazy one at that. She plundered the works of Terry, Bidol and Katz as well repackaging James Edler’s idea of white consciousness as white fragility and stealing his distancing behaviors concept. Pretty much nothing she wrote was an original idea she came up with. I am no fan of Matt Walsh, but I believe he did his country a great service with his new documentary “Am I Racist?” which exposes the bizarre world of white anti-racism training. Walsh embarrassed DiAngelo and proved what a fraud she is. Your article shows very well that she is a serial plagiarist and that the toxic ideas she advocates have been around for a long time. It’s important people know this history so we can show why it’s so dangerous and how we can push back against it. Indeed the pendulum is beginning slowly, to swing the other way in our society on identity politics and race essentialism and Kendi and now DiAngelo too, are being exposed. I’m glad of it frankly. The United States has come a long way and minority groups overall are doing quite well in this country. We should celebrate NOT dismiss that progress. It’s time for Terry, Bidol, Katz, and Edler’s ideas to be placed in the rubbish bin of history where they belong! They should be replaced with the colorblindness and universalism advocated by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement! DiAngelo has been thoroughly discredited and embarrassed and I hope her career will soon be coming to an end. DiAngelo and Kendi are NOT heroes! They have nothing on the likes of MLK, Malcolm X, Bayard Rustin, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, John Lewis, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, C.T. Vivian, Diane Nash, James Farmer, and Julian Bond! Nor the courage of the Freedom Riders or those who participated in the 1965 March from Selma to Montgomery. I think where we are on race relations today can best be summed up by a statement then-Senator Barack Obama made in the Illinois state house “The Moses generation did the work to get us 90% of the way, but we the Joshua generation still have that 10% to go.” I think that 10% is largely because of the folks on the far-left like DiAngelo, Kendi and Saira Rao and the folks on the far-right like Richard Spencer, David Duke and Nick Fuentes.
Ha, “required reading” is a lot, but thank you very much and I appreciate it!