Robin DiAngelo, the far-left author of the 2018 book White Fragility and now Nice Racism, said white people use comedy as an outlet to be racist.<\/p>\n
Comedy is, I think its an excuse to get to be racist, right? DiAngelo said in an April interview that the nonprofit organization Mythinformed shared over the weekend. I think TV shows like Family Guy and South Park and maybe a little bit The Simpsons allowed white people to be racist self-consciously, right? Like, I know Im being racist and therefore it doesnt count and its OK.<\/p>\n
I dont think its benign to do it in a joking way, DiAngelo continued. So if you want to punch up, theres very different power dynamics and it doesnt hurt in the same way. It doesnt invoke a deep, deep centuries-long history of oppression when you poke fun at, say, white people. But its very, very different when you poke fun at people of color.<\/p>\n
DiAngelos remarks come after the release of her new book, which debuted with only 3,500 sales and a spot on the New York Times Bestsellers list.<\/p>\n
Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racism Harm argues that America is systemically racist and explains why it is OK to generalize about white people, according to a description of the text.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, the Daily Mail reported that DiAngelo charges an average of $14,000 per lecture and makes about $728,000 annually from workshops and speaking gigs. The author faced widespread backlash in February when a whistleblower at Coca-Cola documented her training that told employees to try to be less white.<\/p>\n
Also in the recirculated footage, DiAngelo claimed whites are wrong to attribute racism to sole instances as opposed to part of a systemic structure.<\/p>\n
We have to move well beyond that and understand it as a system, DiAngelo said. It is the foundation of both of our cultural contexts racist ideology, practices, policies are circulating across the culture and we all absorb them.<\/p>\n
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