A recent podcast of Megyn Kelly featured writer, Matt Taibbi. Get past the fact that he’s not a Trump fan and you’ll find an interesting conversation where he and Kelly dissect the Woke culture that is damaging our society. Towards the end of the podcast they talk about “White Fragility”, written by self-proclaimed racist, Robin DiAngelo.

This subject particularly hits home with me because a few months ago I was invited to a socially distanced picnic in Mountain View, California with a dear friend of 4 years. Not too long into it she told me that I had to face up to the fact that I was a racist. She admitted that she was a racist too. All of this comes right out of White Fragility specifically and Critical Race Theory more generally. I suggested to her using words like “biases” and “prejudices” might go a lot further in gaining allies and winning her argument, but she would have none of it. Hey, if my friend wants to call herself a racist then go for it. But I entirely reject the label being affixed to my forehead!

Here’s an excerpt from Taibbi’s article:

It takes a special kind of ignorant for an author to choose an example that illustrates the mathematical opposite of one’s intended point, but this isn’t uncommon in White Fragility, which may be the dumbest book ever written.

This dingbat racialist cult, which has no art, music, literature, and certainly no comedy, is the vision of “progress” institutional America has chosen to endorse in the Trump era. Why? Maybe because it fits. It won’t hurt the business model of the news media, which for decades now has been monetizing division and has known how to profit from moral panics and witch hunts since before Fleet street discovered the Mod/Rocker wars.

For corporate America the calculation is simple. What’s easier, giving up business models based on war, slave labor, and regulatory arbitrage, or benching Aunt Jemima? There’s a deal to be made here, greased by the fact that the “antiracism” prophets promoted in books like White Fragility share corporate Americas instinctive hostility to privacy, individual rights, freedom of speech, etc.