{"id":150517,"date":"2021-02-19T19:00:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T00:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=150517"},"modified":"2021-02-19T19:28:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T00:28:19","slug":"be-less-white-uncovering-white-fragility-author-robin-diangelos-linkedin-course-on-confronting-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/be-less-white-uncovering-white-fragility-author-robin-diangelos-linkedin-course-on-confronting-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Be Less White\u2019: Uncovering White Fragility Author Robin DiAngelo\u2019s LinkedIn Course On \u2018Confronting Racism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbe-less-white-uncovering-white-fragility-author-robin-diangelos-linkedin-course-on-confronting-racism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=150517&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1227673155-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Robin DiAngelo is best known for her 2018 book titled, \u201cWhite Fragility: Why It\u2019s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism,\u201d which later became a <em>New York Times<\/em> bestseller, reaching the top spot on the <em>New York Times<\/em> list during the Black Lives Matter protests in June 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Since 2016, she has given regular workshops on the topic of \u201cwhite fragility.\u201d On Friday, a course offered by DiAngelo \u2014<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/learning\/confronting-racism-with-robin-diangelo\/what-you-can-do\"><span>available<\/span><\/a> <span>on LinkedIn Learning \u2014 titled, \u201cConfronting Racism, with Robin DiAngelo,\u201d started trending on Twitter, with many shocked to find the advice she was giving participants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In one of the latter sections titled, \u201cWhat you can do,\u201d DiAngelo claims that she doesn\u2019t \u201c<\/span><span>think white people really want to know what to do, unless it\u2019s the most simplistic thing, which is just keep being friendly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThat question tends to function as a way to jump over the hard, personal work and just get to the answer or get to the solution. It\u2019s a little bit arrogant for folks who have never in their life thought deeply about this and after an hour, they want to get the answer and go fix it,\u201d DiAngelo continues. \u201cAt the same time, we can\u2019t wait until we have it all figured out. And so I will offer a challenging question back. And then I will answer the what do we do?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The questions DiAngelo poses are: \u201cWhat about your life has allowed you to be a full functioning professional, educated adult and not know what to do about racism?\u201d \u201cHow have you managed not to know?\u201d and \u201cWhy is that your question?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Later, DiAngelo states that part of the solution is to try \u201cto be a little less white.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019m really clear that I am not going to be free of my conditioning, and racism is not going to end in my lifetime,\u201d DiAngelo admits. \u201cThe question I ask myself is, how do I do a little less harm? And how do I know, right? Am I in any given moment behaving in anti-racist ways?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She then continues to explain what it means to be \u201cless white\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Be less oppressive<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Be less arrogant<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Be less certain<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Be less defensive<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Be less ignorant<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Be more humble<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Listen<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Believe<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Break with apathy<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Break with white solidarity<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>The argument here, of course, is that to be<\/span> <em><span>more<\/span><\/em> <span>white would mean to be more oppressive, more arrogant, more certain, more defensive, more ignorant, less humble, not to listen, not to believe, to continue being apathetic, and to engage in white solidarity. In other words, \u201cwhiteness\u201d is inherently connected to oppression, arrogance, certainty, defensiveness, ignorance, lack of humility, inability to listen, apathy, and racial solidarity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Robin DiAngelo, who is white, is often paid large sums by corporations and institutions to provide <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/08\/14\/uconn-will-pay-white-fragility-author-robin-diangelo-20000-to-train-school-administrators\/\">training<\/a> on coming \u201c<\/span><span>to grips with the critical questions of racism and inclusion.\u201d In 2020, it was reported that<\/span> <span>UConn was paying DiAngelo $20,000 for a three-day retreat, and that \u201cDiAngelo and other diversity lecturers often charge in the $10,000 to $15,000 dollar range for a few hours of work,\u201d even charging \u201c$320 per hour for a phone call.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robin DiAngelo is best known for her 2018 book titled, \u201cWhite Fragility: Why It\u2019s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism,\u201d which later became a New York Times &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181570,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1227673155-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Be Less White\u2019: Uncovering White Fragility Author Robin DiAngelo\u2019s LinkedIn Course On \u2018Confronting Racism\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1227673155-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Be Less White\u2019: Uncovering White Fragility Author Robin DiAngelo\u2019s LinkedIn Course On \u2018Confronting Racism\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}