Since the resignation of Claudine Gay, Ibram Kendi has been very busy on X making the case that this is definitive proof there is racism afoot. Here’s one of his tweets from yesterday along with my response to it.
This is just not true. It has been evident for some time that the wokest people are probably white women like Robin DiAngelo. People on the right criticize her as much or more as they do you because it’s about ideology, not race.
— John Sexton (@verumserum) January 3, 2024
In case you’ve forgotten, Robin DiAngelo is the bestselling author of “What Fragility.” It was actually published back in 2018 but in the summer of 2020 it became a big bestseller, even outselling Kendi’s own book “How to be an Anti-Racist.” This story about the sales figures was published in June 2020:
The two top sellers in the week were How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi and…
