Robin DiAngelo’s 2018 book White Fragility tops the bestseller lists. It claims white people are inherently racist, inculcated from birth by their “white privilege.” Writing in The Atlantic, John McWhorter finds that White Fragility trades in bizarre claims, calls the book itself “racist” and reproaches the author for her dehumanizing condescension toward black people.
Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.
