Robin DiAngelo's 2018 argument — that white people's defensive reactions to discussions of race (denial, anger, guilt) constitute 'white fragility' that sustains racial hierarchies — the central text of the 2020 DEI training wave.
Creates the white fragility framework — White Fragility's argument (that the discomfort white people experience when challenged about race is itself a form of racism, and that this discomfort must be examined rather than defended against) became the conceptual foundation for most corporate diversity training after 2020's racial reckoning.
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