The bestselling book "White Fragility," whose ideas have gained mainstream currency in the wake of protests against police brutality and systemic racism, dehumanizes and infantilizes Black people by encouraging a "cult" of White guilt, Columbia University associate professor John McWhorter argued this week. that "White Fragility" is "about how to make certain educated [W]hite readers feel better about themselves." "DiAngelo’s outlook rests upon a depiction of Black people as endlessly delicate poster children within this self-gratifying fantasy about how [W]hite America needs to think," McWhorter wrote. Her answer to [W]hite fragility, in other words, entails an elaborate and pitilessly dehumanizing condescension toward Black people." Slate, a liberal outlet, published criticism last year, which, like McWhorter, suggested DiAngelo was encouraging White People to focus too much on themselves.

Source: Fox News July 17, 2020 23:37 UTC