White Fragility Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

there's a difference between things, but we sort of conflate them all and we have this debate and it probably isn't that helpful.

a positive white identity is an impossible goal. White identity is inherently racist. White people do not exist outside the system of white supremacy.

a positive white identity is an impossible goal. White identity is inherently racist. White people do not exist outside the system of white supremacy.

The Robin D'Angelo one where you gave that guy money for reparations and you got her, she thought it was uncomfortable.

When we had the idea for the film to talk about race, we knew we needed to get Robin D'Angelo.

I didn't think we'd get her because I figured she'd be a lot more cautious.

But apparently she has no idea what's happening outside of her bubble at all.

So she didn't know who I was. I mean, I gave her my name and she had no clue.

The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination.

The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination.

The Wages of Woke. How Robin DiAngelo got rich peddling white fragility.

they were engaged in and the crazy trainings and the recommendations of reading books like white fragility.

and the recommendations of reading books like white fragility. you know,

I'm a big believer in affinity space and affinity work and I think people are going to need to get away from white people and have some community with each other.

white fragility

I'd love to debate Robin DiAngelo, race huckster, author of White Fragility and other unreadable terms.

Our leaders are too uncomfortable with this. We've actually lost contracts when people have said we want to do anti-racism work and we go in and they say, oh, this is what you mean by anti-racism work? Oh, we we didn't. That's not what we signed up for.

So you see that on that fragility centering white comfort is so alive and well.

I'm a big believer in affinity space and affinity work. And I think people of color need to get away from white people and, and have some community with each other.

Robin DiAngelo, the Miss Whiplash of anti racism says there is no good form of whiteness. There is no good form of being white.

That's what it's from. And they just read that book and took those lines out of that book.

And they just read that book and took those lines out of that book.

Frankly, White Fragility is literally the worst book I've ever read.

And we've got White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo.

There's a book called white fragility by Robin DiAngelo.

And they have a kind of philosophy around anti-racism that comes out of critical race theory and their philosophy is that you know a white guy like you should be more or less constantly thinking about how your whiteness has uh given you privilege how your how how your whiteness blinds you to the realities that a black person like me can see

And on di angelo's account you are supposed to be constantly different to black people in conversation so she literally says in her book if you and i are talking about race you as a white guy me as a black guy you were not supposed to disagree with what i have to say about race you're not supposed to argue back you're not supposed to remain silent you're not supposed to get defensive

Robin DiAngelo, in White Fragility, makes the case that racism today is a way worse than Jim Crow because it's invisible and only people like her can see it.

Right now the most popular, the most well selling or best selling books are white fragility by DeAngelo and I can't remember her first name and then there's Robin DeAngelo

I really don't think that often about Robin DiAngelo I know she wrote a book called White Fragility which was published last year and was all the rave I found it in coherent but I learned why what what was in cool and maybe this isn't productive like I don't want to I don't want to push you into commenting on Robin DiAngelo maybe that's just not a reasonable place for this court

We used passages from Kendi's How to Be an Anti-Racist and from D'Angelo's White Fragility.

without the robin d'angelo jargon that's with the white fragility book

Robin DiAngelo is the author of an incredibly big selling book called White Fragility.

It was the top of the New York Times bestseller list for weeks at a time.

It sold hundreds of thousands if not millions of copies and it is complete and utter tripe.

It is an awful piece of trash.

The entire book conflicts, it is logically incoherent and it happens to be also particularly ugly because the basic idea is that if you are white then you are inherently sinful and there's no way to escape that sin except for doing the things that Robin DiAngelo wants you to do, politically speaking.

One of the people who you get in the film is Robin DiAngelo, the author of White Fragility, which is one of the best-selling anti-racist books of the last 10 years.

It sold hundreds of thousands of copies. It was used as sort of the guide for the pathetic white people during the race riots of 2020, during the George Floyd uprising.

Truly an awful piece of shit. It's horrific.

You'll recall her as the author of White Fragility. I did an entire like 45 minute breakdown of that awful, awful book. One of the worst books ever written on YouTube.

Coca Cola has now decided that they are going to force their employees to take anti-racism training with the ex-gribble robin the angelo robin the angelo is the worst public intellectual in america she's awful she's a cult leader if you read her book or garbage book white fragility

The entire argument that she makes is that black people cannot take care of their own future that white liberals like robin the angelo have to take care of black people's future

in their further sources cited that they cite the garbage book robin de angelo's white fragility

Meanwhile, horribly racist books like White Fragility, How to Be an Anti-Racist Top, the bestseller charts pushed by the same media that's trying to cancel people who believe just traditionally American things.

Why are we seeing like truly racist books like White Fragility or How to Be an Anti-Racist promulgated pushing the narrative that if you believe in the American system, it's because you yourself are a racist?

So I told you I read Robin Angelo's White Fragility, So I'm All Set, that's the equivalent of the, I don't trust your fucking judgment.

I mean, and me and Robin are tight. I love Robin. I'm just saying probably half the people that are listening to this read that book.

That's what I'm saying. They read it and they, and it was good and they ain't read it again since.

They haven't grabbed another white body and said for the next 30 years, me and you going to roll around race specifically.

And we are going to cultivate between ourselves a different way of understanding this. And we may not be able to get to what we think we need to get to, but at least we're going to nibble on this.

So take this recent clip of white fragility author Robin DiAngelo claiming that black people need to, quote, get away from white people.

For example, at the end there, that was as many of you probably know, that was a none other than Robin DiAngelo, antiracist expert extraordinaire author of white fragility.

I just finished reading Robin D'Angelo's white fragility and I think she did like an excellent job of defining racism as like a system of oppression as opposed to like a personal choice.

In her seminal tome, White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo excoriates the film as fundamentally and insidiously antiblack.

they don't want a copy of white fragility. That's not what they want

the fact is nobody wants a copy of white fragility. It's not on anyone's list.

One seriously wonders whether our military left copies of White Fragility and, you know, I Am Jazz at the embassy for the Taliban when they took over.

I mean, one seriously wonders whether our military left copies of White Fragility and, you know, I Am Jazz at the embassy for the Taliban when they took over. I wouldn't be surprised if that was the plan.

Robin DiAngelo ... wrote White Fragility and then she wrote another book recently that I guess nobody read. I don't think ...

I don't think probably 10 people have read it, but it sold a lot of copies. The other book didn't even sell any copies.

it was a nod to White Fragility, the book

And of course, it was a nod to white fragility, the book, like everything. But I just, it just felt right.

And of course it was a nod to white fragility, the book, everything.

What's coming to mind is this concept of white fragility. I know Robin DiAngelo who wrote that book, white fragility is controversial so I'm not here to pass judgment on whether work is good or bad but the concept is compelling I think.

I think that she defines it as an inability to tolerate racial stress.

What's coming to mind is this concept of white fragility. I know Robin DiAngelo who wrote that book, white fragility is controversial so I'm not here to pass judgment on whether her work is good or bad but the concept is compelling I think and I wonder whether many white people get stuck in the denial and are not willing to go all the way through the stages of grief to acceptance and maybe improved comportment.

Yeah, now that now you have like books like White Fragility and stuff like that with the whole intersectional stuff taking taking precedence in the humanities and essentially the overall left.

There ain't nobody that's more white supremacist than uh that woman that wrote White Fragility.

You remember what Robin DiAngelo wrote right about everyone is racist everything she said about black people and also in any given situation It's not a question of whether racism occurred. It's how did racism manifest itself?

These days, Chelsea handler tries to keep her and her friends white privilege in check. She starts like really getting weepy. And I was like, well, what are you doing? Right? You just said you read white fragility. You cannot talk about being white. Can't cry. And start to cry.

If you won't sit there and say white fragility is a great book, it's not idiotic. It's amazing.

Neo-racist like Rob DiAngelo, they say that to be white is to be ignorant for example.

That's actually mistresses sounding what what Robin DiAngelo's position is.

It's in her book but a lot.

i had a lot of friends post the black square after um after george floyd happened over the summer and i've just seen a lot of confusion among christian women who are my age who just want to know hang on what is actually true because i'm confused this sounds good this sounds right but there's something about it that doesn't seem quite true

What's like the hottest book on the left right now? It's White Fragility.

What's the subtitle of White Fragility? I don't know what it is exactly, but in essence, it's something like how white people can blah, blah, blah. That's racist.

That in and of itself is racist. Forget white fragility.

It goes on to talk about the book, White Fragility as you know this book White Fragility which is being pushed everywhere and has been debunked a gazillion times.

Robin DiAngelo gave us the phrase white fragility. She teaches, writes and consults from Seattle.

Robin, because we haven't met before and you haven't been on the show, I am curious. The only thing that I saw as I was looking around about the background of your life was somewhere you said or you wrote that you grew up poor and white in San Francisco.

Robin DiAngelo, who's known for her work on white fragility

Well, um, Rezma's literary agent reached out and told me about Rezma's book and that Rezma loved my work.