Book ‘White Fragility’ banned from Florida high school after parent complaints
Interestingly, one of Thomas’s justifications for using “White Fragility” is to have her students “think critically.” But as noted by The Fix, DiAngelo’s book doesn’t leave a lot of leeway for that. For example, DiAngelo claims “when a person denies they are racist, this denial is actually proof of both racism and white fragility.” The violates the principle of falsifiability — that is, “for anything to be considered scientific, it must be able to be proven false.”
Meanwhile, over in California in sort of a reverse situation, the Burbank Unified School District’s quest for anti-racism led it to ban “until further notice” the classics “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” “Of Mice and Men,” “The Cay” and “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.”...