See, I think what she did is wrong, but not because she did this to black people. She did this to people. She plagiarized from others and didn’t give the proper credit in an academic setting, where that kind of thing happens all the time but is still an unforgivable sin.

Where she was wrong was in her actions, not who she did it to, and that’s the difference between me and her.

Of course, I also wouldn’t take someone else’s work and pass it off as my own, and not just because I know I’m stupid enough to get caught much earlier in my career.

Yet DiAngelo’s inability to view her peers as people probably tells us why she figures everyone else is a morally depraved sack of feces. The technical term here is “projection.”