BOSTON — During a guest lecture at Boston University on Monday, University of Washington Professor Robin DiAngelo told the audience a “dangerous white person” sees people as individuals rather than by skin color.
DiAngelo, whose main field of work is “whiteness studies,” added that those who say they were taught to treat everyone the same deny black people of their reality, she said.
In making the claim, DiAngelo said she was lifting the terminology from her frequent co-facilitator at speaking engagements, black scholar Erin Trent Johnson.
DiAngelo’s comments were couched during a section of her talk titled “What Does It Mean To Be White” that discussed colorblindness and those who say “I was taught to treat everyone the same, or some version of that.”
“If you are being honest, you’ve probably said it,” she told the audience, then added that in reality no one in the room was taught to treat everyone the same. “Your parents could lecture you to do it [but] you don’t do it, you can’t do it, there is no human objectivity.”
She said when she hears people talk about treating everyone the same, it tells her “this person doesn’t understand basic socialization. This person doesn’t understand culture. This person is not self-aware.”
“And I need to give a heads up to the white people in the room,” DiAngelo said. “When people of color hear us say this, they’re generally not thinking, ‘Alright, I’m talking to a woke white person right now.’ Usually some version of eye-rolling is going on, and a wall is going up.”
“My friend Erin Trent Johnson … she says, ‘When I hear a white person say this, what I am thinking is: ‘This is a dangerous white person. This is a white person who is going to need to deny my reality.’”
DiAngelo’s sentiments stand in stark contrast to a famous alumnus of school, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who earned his PhD in theology from Boston University and famously pronounced that he had a dream that his four children “will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
But DiAngelo placed a great emphasis on racial identity throughout the lecture, and dedicated a significant portion of her introduction to acknowledging the fact that she herself is a white person.
“I want to be clear that as I stand up here with authority and a voice on this topic, I’m reinforcing whiteness and the centrality of the white view,” she said. “I’d like to be a little less white, which means a little less oppressive, oblivious, defensive, ignorant and arrogant.”
She also stated she was “going to admit to things white people never admit to” and because of “implicit bias,” the white people in the room will be more inclined to listen to her.
She discussed how racism is systemic in the media, the family, religion, education, economics, language, and criminal justice. The common definition of racism as “an individual who consciously does not like people based on race and is intentionally mean to them” allegedly protects this system of racism.
She also talked about the rampant sexism this country faces. One slide of her presentation demonstrated that the majority of politicians, directors, and police officers are male, and that it is sexist for one to suggest that maybe men “just happen to be” more inclined to go into these fields of work.
“We live in a patriarchy,” she affirmed, and even asserted her own husband is a product of the patriarchy.
She encouraged the audience to think in terms of race, and not the character of individual people, because all white people are racist to some degree, no matter what.
DiAngelo is a frequent guest speaker at campuses across the nation, coined the term “white fragility,” and recently wrote a book on the subject titled “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism.”
It is my sincere desire to provide readers of this site with the best unbiased information available, and a forum where it can be discussed openly, as our Founders intended. But it is not easy nor inexpensive to do so, especially when those who wish to prevent us from making the truth known, attack us without mercy on all fronts on a daily basis. So each time you visit the site, I would ask that you consider the value that you receive and have received from The Burning Platform and the community of which you are a vital part. I can't do it all alone, and I need your help and support to keep it alive. Please consider contributing an amount commensurate to the value that you receive from this site and community, or even by becoming a sustaining supporter through periodic contributions. [Burning Platform LLC - PO Box 1520 Kulpsville, PA 19443] or Paypal
-----------------------------------------------------
To donate via Stripe, click here.
-----------------------------------------------------
Use promo code ILMF2, and save up to 66% on all MyPillow purchases. (The Burning Platform benefits when you use this promo code.)
Liberals are sanctimonious asses, hypocrites and racists in the worst way. The reas0n we’re supposed to see color, according to the liberal dumbass, is because essentially other races are unable to do for themselves so we have to make allowances for their inabilities. Before the Civil Rights act was passed, black employment, marriage rates, drug and alcohol abuse rates and crime rates were on par with those of whites. As soon as LBJ “made allowances for their inabilities” everything changed until that subset of our society is a trainwreck. They try to claim its to make up for white privilege, but the reality is liberals can’t stand being without slaves. They can’t stand it.
The left has come full circle. Now denying that race exists (as white normies, cucks and leftists do) is dangerous.
“She said when she hears people talk about treating everyone the same, it tells her “this person doesn’t understand basic socialization. This person doesn’t understand culture. This person is not self-aware.” – IOW, you have to be a racist to have a normal functioning mind. A “creedal” nation cannot exist, because the reality of race and racial groups cannot be suppressed.
“She said when she hears people talk about treating everyone the same, it tells her “this person doesn’t understand basic socialization. This person doesn’t understand culture. This person is not self-aware.” – Diversity will never work. It wasn’t going to anyway, but this is the left consciously realizing this.
In a rational world her head would be on a pike in the town square.
Michael (Martin Luther) King is a poor example to use for a “civil-rights” icon. He plagiarized his “doctoral thesis”. His “I Have A Dream” speech was plagiarized from a 1920s preacher, and he liked to beat up prostitutes that he hired, while stating that he “finally felt like a white man”. His associates have corroborated these actions by this “civil-rights” icon…
I’m always suspect when I see a white woman with a wigger hairdo.
Notice how she clenches her fists, just like that female injun wannabe from Massachusetts?
Her thinking doesn’t make much sense. I guess hate is all lefties have.
Don’t care.
More proof, liberalism is a mental disorder.
I’m assuming only a self-hating man would marry her as a way paying penance.
Either that or a drunk.
Hey! Drunks aren’t that stupid! Now a soy boy, yeppers!
Time to hate my Saxons.
Can we end official racial discrimination peacefully yet or must we do it the old fashioned way?
You don’t mean Jussie’s rope do you?
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2019/04/19/mob-teens-rampage-downtown-chicago/
http://www.fox9.com/news/mall-of-america-boy-thrown-good-friday-update
Our darker brothers have very poor impulse control and DinduNuttin
What’s Yoji been wrong about? Please be specific.
Your klan robe is showing go clean yourself up puppy ?
He has been wrong about nothing. You can admit it to us. We already know.
I hate liberals
You know when a libtard speaks it’s all psychobabble. https://youtu.be/i7RbZNT5A2A
The better question would be to ask: How does a brainless, libtard bitch such as this acquire the job, status and ability to lecture to impressionable students, all the while spewing her vile, disgusting poisonous rhetoric throughout the country? I may have just posed a rhetorical question as the answer is all too obvious.
The colleges have been taken hostage by the communists and we already know that communism is Jewish, so the only logical conclusion is that she was empowered by those who work tirelessly to rid this nation of the white race, through their schemes of race-baiting, multicultural nonsense, promoting biracial relationships and the inevitable miscegenation that ultimately results from those unholy relationships.
When she ceases to be a “useful” idiot, they’ll slit her throat and dump her body in a landfill. That’s the fate of all of the useful idiots that betray their own race to serve the satanic Jews in their quest for world domination.
Funny thing is, in the 1960’s, we were told by Soviet defectors that infiltrating our Universities and institutions of power was exactly how they would destroy America from within, without firing a shot…
The short version… https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=soviet+defector+interview&&view=detail&mid=3F17EC5C303E29F0EFEC3F17EC5C303E29F0EFEC&&FORM=VDRVRV
Looked the bitch up-it appears she never had a useful job in her life or even did one useful thing. Then again, her “career” seems to have been tied to the University of Washington. And yes, she seems to live in Seattle, though there was no information about a spouse or partner. Since she supposedly was raised by a destitute mother (no father around???) I rather suspect she may have issues with men.
Hmmmm, more than a few parallels with Rachel Dolezal who teaches at a university in Washington.
Grew up on a farm. Cattle come in a variety of breeds that have different colors – Angus, Herefords, Charolais, etc.
At least the cattle were smart enough to recognize that the others were still cattle, and treated each other that way. At what point do people get so hung up majoring in the minors that they are being outsmarted by cows?
Cattle gets slaughtered.
Just saying.
Because they still haven’t caught on that all that free food and care isn’t free after all.
Race doesnt exist. Magic dirt. Integration. If your whole worldview is filtered by race you are dangerous. Watch out for dangerous happy white families. Black lives matter. We are all the same. Diversity is our strength.
Did i miss anything?
MLK’s statement completely falls apart when you are part of a group, or are an individual, that HAS INFERIOR CHARACTER. Addressing just the message, and NOT the messenger for a moment, there was a push at one point for blacks to demand that they be treated appropriately by whites specifically BECAUSE they were good family men, were gainfully employed, were educated, were well-behaved, etc. and deserved nothing less than equal treatment under the law, etc. Walter Williams often cites statistics from the pre-Great Society period that clearly bear this out.
But instead of maintaining these positive character traits, they instead pushed for government protections of the color of their skin, so they could let the character part fall completely to the wayside. And most, sadly did. Now, 50 years of sub-culture crime, single-parent households, violence, theft, educational failure, welfare dependency, etc. are seen as their “unique culture” that no white person could understand.
Of course nobody is taught to see everyone the same. We are raised to understand the difference between bad and good, a person with good character and one without, a person who is responsible and one who is not, a person who is a threat and one who is not, etc. But hey, if these wacko liberal professors want us whites to all go back to judging people by the color of their skin, those who have bothered to elevate themselves above the riff-raff of their race, are going to be the biggest losers in all of this.
“so they could let the character part fall completely to the wayside.”
They dropped the act. We’re starting to see the real them. The Southerners knew all along.
don’t like white stuff, stop using to-lit pa-puh. stay woke – find a color-pleasing substitute, a**holes.