As an appreciator of profound irony and a disdainer of hucksterism, it is with great pleasure that I report that Robin DiAngelo, author of the anti-white screed “White Fragility,” has been exposed as an alleged serial plagiarizer.
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Via Washington Free Beacon (emphasis added):
Robin DiAngelo, the best-selling author of White Fragility, is a big believer in citing minorities.
In an "accountability" statement on her website, which makes repeated reference to her Ph.D., DiAngelo, 67, tells "fellow white people" that they should "always cite and give credit to the work of BIPOC people who have informed your thinking."
It doesn't matter if their contribution is just a few words. "When you use a phrase or idea you got from a BIPOC person," DiAngelo says, referring to black, indigenous, and other people of color, "credit them."
I was under the impression that plagiarizing anyone regardless of their color was wrong, but apparently, in our wonderful post-racist utopia, the caveat only applies to BIPOCs.
Lo and behold!
DiAngelo, according to a formal complaint filed against her, plagiarized multiple minority scholars in her doctoral thesis.
Continuing:
According to a complaint filed last week with the University of Washington, where DiAngelo received her Ph.D. in multicultural education, she plagiarized several scholars—including two minorities—in her doctoral thesis.
The 2004 dissertation, "Whiteness in Racial Dialogue: A Discourse Analysis," lifts two paragraphs from an Asian-American professor, Northeastern University's Thomas Nakayama, and his coauthor, Robert Krizek, without proper attribution, omitting quotation marks and in-text citations.
DiAngelo also lifts material from Stacey Lee, an Asian-American professor of education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in which Lee summarizes the work of a third scholar, David Theo Goldberg.
I guess her defense might be that, since Asians are not BIPOCs and are, in fact, lower on the intersectional hierarchy, she didn’t technically violate her own rule about stealing work from minorities and passing it off as her own for cash and social clout. She’s definitely going to spin it somehow because personal responsibility is antithetical to progressive psychology.
The complaint highlights numerous instances of DiAngelo allegedly taking other scholars’ works and then rearranging some words without proper citation.
Here is Robin’s “accountability statement” which she apparently doesn’t abide by herself.
Via robindiangelo.com (emphasis added):
Accountability within antiracist work is the understanding that what I profess to value must be demonstrated in action, and the validity of that action is determined by Black, Indigenous and Peoples of Color. Accountability requires trust, transparency, and action. As a white person seeking to be accountable, I must continually ask myself, “How do I know how I am doing?” To answer this question, I need to check in and find out. I can do this in several ways, including: by directly asking Black, Indigenous, and Peoples of Color with whom I have trusting relationships and who have agreed to offer me this feedback; talking to other white people who have an antiracist framework; reading the work of Black, Indigenous and Peoples of Color who have told us what they want and need (this work is easy to find and many racial justice educators have good resource lists on their websites) and; engaging in the exercises Black, Indigenous and Peoples of Color provide in online classes and workbooks. Ultimately it is for Black, Indigenous and Peoples of Color to decide if I am actually behaving in antiracist ways. When I find that I am out of alignment, I need to do what is necessary and try to repair the situation. And yes, the more experience and practice I have in antiracist work the more thoughtfully I will be able to use the feedback I receive.
Knowing the leftist academic mind, I’m confident she’ll be using the feedback she’s received in the form of a formal complaint of plagiarism “thoughtfully” to figure out how to blame white supremacists for making her commit academic fraud.
