Welcome to Friday Fishwrap™, your weekly email filled with this week’s efforts from the staff of The Global Exclaimer.
Hot Spam-Bots were messaging me
But, I’m pretty sure they wanted Chad. And can you blame them?
But alas, Chad is also AI. Read his letter to all his hot spam-bot admirers.
Chad lets ‘em down ez.
White Fragility Revisited
Roughly five years ago I did a deep dive into Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility”. As part of a DEI push, many companies were requiring their employees to read this book, and, well, no one liked it. Looking back, this book may have been the herald of doom for the DEI agenda. But why? I think the problem was a combination of delivery, triteness, and an unconscious smug tone.
But while it seems that the woke pendulum has reached its zenith on the far left, I fear the anti-woke backlash. I’d prefer the ascendant Republican party eschew their “To the victor go the spoils” exuberance. In it’s place I would offer the “Conduct your victory as if at a funeral” mindset of Sun Tzu evident in “The Art of War.”
In order to avoid over-correction, I think we need to understand the philosophy that underlies “White Fragility”, where it went wrong, and how it poisoned what I think was a sincere effort to address an injustice perceived.
It was intended as a path forward out of racial injustice but ironically it may have been its own herald of doom, ultimately becoming a catalyst for the backlash against perceived woke ideologies.
This is a multi-part series and it starts now:
Civil Society?
I’m not a big fan of AOC. I think she is a smart woman who is letting her progressive leanings make her say dumb things. And I think politicians should be called out when they say things that are misleading, one-sided or false to facts.
But this comment from some 12 year old on his mommy’s phone bothers me, because whoever wrote it is probably a grown man, yet he felt it appropriate to be insulting and demeaning.
See what I’m talking about