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Reading Robin DiAngelo’s ‘White Fragility’ Is A Terrible Way To Combat Actual Racism
Go to your local coffee shop, neighbor’s house, vacation spot, or even peruse Amazon’s best-sellers, and you’ll likely see the same book over and over again.
By Gwen Farrell3 min read
Sociologist Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People To Talk about Racism has continuously topped the charts in recent months and received critical acclaim. Everyone from protesting activists to Twitter users to your mom’s book club is reading it, so let’s talk about it — and why you shouldn’t read it.