Uh Oh: Did 'White Fragility' Author Plagiarize BIPOC Scholars?

In an "accountability" statement on her website, which makes repeated reference to her Ph.D., [Robin] DiAngelo, 67, tells "fellow white people" that they should "always cite and give credit to the work of BIPOC people who have informed your thinking."

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It doesn't matter if their contribution is just a few words. "When you use a phrase or idea you got from a BIPOC person," DiAngelo says, referring to black, indigenous, and other people of color, "credit them."

But the white diversity trainer has not always taken her own advice. According to a complaint filed last week with the University of Washington, where DiAngelo received her Ph.D. in multicultural education, she plagiarized several scholars—including two minorities—in her doctoral thesis.

Ed Morrissey

A complaint isn't necessarily proof, but this would be one of the greatest scholastic ironies of all time, if true. 

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