Thread by @lukerosiak

If you read the books of DiAngelo types, it's clear wokeness is projection by unusually anxious, racist white women who crave mystical protocols to cure their inability to talk to people of other races as peers

Here I review the 2014 book Waking Up White

dailywire.com/news/book-revi…

Debby Irving, who was hired for 75 speeches on anti-racism this year, lives in a 4% black neighborhood and summers at a home passed down thru her family since the Mayflower era, where there are only 16 black people in 194 miles.

Her WASP upbringing instilled her with social anxiety and the need to master manners for every social setting. Emotionally reserved when around Protestants, say "ma'am" when around Southerners

But when she met a black person, she got "so jumpy" because she didn't know the code

She calls the anxiety of talking to a black person the "zap," like a dog hitting an electric fence. So, of course, she enrolled in a college course to learn about blacks, and attended the White Privilege Conference.

There she began to learn the magic protocol for talking to blacks: Don't ask them where they work. Don't call them articulate. Definitely don't shush them in movie theaters

If she followed these tips, she could get her anxiety in check (Or you could, you know, go to a therapist)

She was quite racist. When she went to a chiropractor and saw that he was black, she was convinced he was trying to scam her. But “It excited me to know that there were professionals in the world, ‘diversity trainers,’ who could help people like me."

The lesson she learned was that her racism and feelings of inadequacy weren't her fault. Her wealthy upbringing was about as foreign from the experiences of most whites as from most blacks, but she views this as simply "white" culture and blames it for her social anxiety.

To try to get a black friend, she thrust herself in front of a teenage boy who was walking down the street. “Hi there.,” she said. The boy ignored her. It must have been because of the “deep and traumatic history of black men being tortured,” she thought.

When she met a Harvard Law graduate who was from Trinidad and therefore had black skin, she was so in awe that she was able to have a normal conversation with her that she wanted to write an article “exploring our connection across racial and cultural differences.”

This is entirely in keeping, of course, with what @mtaibbi found in Robin DiAngelo's latest book. When she had dinner with a black person, instead of just connecting with a potential new friend, she felt the need to blabber bizarre stories about racism.