Andrew Bolt: Why demonising whites is no cure for racism

Is there anything so shamelessly racist as Coke’s new workplace course that teaches employees “how to be less white”?

Here is news you can use if your skin is now the most shameful colour in the world. Like workers at Coca-Cola, you can learn “how to be less white”.

You may think this course is just more proof anti-racists have now become the biggest and most shameless racists around.

Or maybe you really are a dumb as Coke, which has asked staff in the US to do online courses to make their workplace allegedly more “inclusive”.

But one of those courses is by a best-selling author and race hustler called Robin DiAngelo, who is flogging her hot new notion that there’s something called “white fragility”.

Boiled down, she argues white people don’t like being abused as racists, and that just proves they really are racists.

This is gold for the race industry. Whites are racists if they admit it, but also if they deny it. Win win.

But the really controversial thing about DiAngelo’s course is that it includes a lesson on “how
to be less white”.

To be less white, a white person must, she says, “be less oppressive, be less arrogant, be less certain, be less defensive, be less ignorant”.

Have you ever heard something so racist? And so shamelessly put?

What exactly is the evidence that whites are oppressive, arrogant, too certain and ignorant — and more so than any other “race”? If whites are oppressive and arrogant, why was democracy first formalised in white Greece?

If whites are too certain and too ignorant, why did science and the scientific revolution take off in white Europe?

I have no doubt there are white racists, just as there are black ones, Chinese ones, Japanese ones and more. It’s a very human thing to prefer your own, and a far too human fault to think other “races” are worse and all alike.

But surely the answer to this poison is to insist on treating each other as individuals, not representatives of a tribe.

No, says DiAngelo. That argument is itself “white” and racist. How sad to be so stupid.

The great Martin Luther King himself argued we should look beyond the colour and see the person.

To instead demonise whites does not prove you are not racist. It proves the opposite, and, worse, invites exactly the racist reaction I fear these race baiters really want.