Robin DiAngelo, the author of the bestseller “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism,” reportedly has not responded to a request that she debate famed human rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a native of Somalia, on the subject of so-called “systemic racism.” If DiAngelo agreed to the debate, at least $22,000 would be sent to some of Kenya’s most underprivileged children.
Helen Pluckrose — who along with James A. Lindsay and Peter Boghossian initiated a celebrated project in which they submitted fake academic papers to peer-reviewed journals in cultural, gender, queer, and race studies to see if they would get published — noted on Twitter on Wednesday:
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