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Bonus Interview: "What a stupid f*cking way to have a really important conversation": Reflections On A Yearlong White Fragility Training

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

If hearing Jesse and Katie dig around in the strange innards of "White Fragility" wasn't enough Robin DiAngelo for you, have we got the thing: an interview Katie conducted with a woman whose former company, throw into disarray by a racial microaggression, brought in DiAngelo to conduct a full year's worth of antiracism training, complete with (unpaid) homework. It went.... strangely, and at one point involved allegations of subconscious swastikas.



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0:00.0

Hey everyone, this is Katie and I am thankfully alone today.

0:03.3

I finally got rid of Jesse, who by the way has agreed to give me 80% of our Patreon earnings

0:08.5

to help address the gender wage gap and if he tells you otherwise he's just trying to

0:12.9

be modest.

0:13.9

So the episode you're about to hear is a conversation between me and a woman who was required to go

0:17.5

through a year's worth of equity, diversity and inclusion trainings with none other than

0:21.3

Robin DiAngelo, the best-selling author of White Fragility and the subject of our last

0:26.0

episode.

0:27.1

This is going to be a lot more interesting and make a lot more sense if you actually

0:30.3

know something about Robin DiAngelo when it works.

0:32.4

So if you haven't already, go back and listen to our last episode before you listen to

0:36.1

this one.

0:37.1

So the woman you're about to hear me interview wanted to remain anonymous to avoid any

0:40.3

potential professional fallout, but she worked as a graphic designer at a non-profit theater

0:44.0

company that brought in DiAngelo and other diversity trainers after an incident that took

0:48.3

place offstage.

0:49.3

And that'll all make sense shortly.

0:51.6

We've also decided to keep the theater anonymous in order to protect her as much as possible,

0:55.3

but I did verify that this incident did actually take place.

0:58.3

So this was originally going to be a Patreon only episode, but we decided to make it free

1:02.3

for everyone because we think more people really need to hear about what's going on in

1:05.6

these diversity trainings, which are rapidly spreading and might be coming to a conference

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