These are assertions piled upon assertions, with little or no evidence to corroborate them. Having accepted the ‘prejudice plus power’ formulation of the critical race theorists, DiAngelo is able to justify her broad generalisations as a virtue because ‘social life is patterned and predictable in measurable ways’. There is barely a page of White Fragility in which DiAngelo does not assert that which ought to be proven. By the closing chapter she is able to claim that she has ‘tried to show throughout this book [that] white people raised in Western society are conditioned into a white
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