Exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality

From the New Yorker: In more than twenty years of running diversity-training and cultural-competency workshops for American companies, the academic and educator Robin DiAngelo has noticed that white people are sensationally, histrionically bad at discussing racism. Like waves on sand, their reactions form predictable patterns: they will insist that they “were taught to treat everyone…