White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo will conduct a training workshop for University of Connecticut administrators this fall. Her fee is $20,000. reason.com/2020/08/14/uco…
Note that she's training the administrators—the campus speech cops—rather than lecturing to the students in a forum where her ideas could be scrutinized. It's not an exchange of ideas, it's new HR policy enforcement.
'White Fragility" is a book that @JohnHMcWhorter called a "racist tract." Difficult to imagine, in any other circumstance, a university training its employees in the methodology of an author whose book was accused of being racist! theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
So we're clear, I don't want DiAngelo canceled. I think it's right to have her speak on campus, and even to pay her (though that's an insane $$$). But her ideas take the form of HR training for employees They are being consumed by students and faculty secondhand—and enforced.
On a separate note: Universities, you will find my speaking fee comparatively quite cheap!
