White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo will conduct a training workshop for University of Connecticut administrators this fall. Her fee is $20,000. https://reason.com/2020/08/14/uconn-will-pay-white-fragility-author-robin-diangelo-20000-to-train-school-administrators/">https://reason.com/2020/08/1...

Note that she& #39;s training the administrators—the campus speech cops—rather than lecturing to the students in a forum where her ideas could be scrutinized. It& #39;s not an exchange of ideas, it& #39;s new HR policy enforcement.

& #39;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! https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/dehumanizing-condescension-white-fragility/614146/">https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/arc...

So we& #39;re clear, I don& #39;t want DiAngelo canceled. I think it& #39;s right to have her speak on campus, and even to pay her (though that& #39;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!