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A professor pushed back on mandatory ‘white fragility’ training for four minutes, the school investigated her for nine months
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A professor pushed back on mandatory ‘white fragility’ training for four minutes, the school investigated her for nine months
John SextonPosted at 4:30 pm on April 5, 2021
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Today Reason published a piece by Jesse Singal about an English professor named Elisa Parrett. Parrett teaches at a public technical college outside of Seattle called the Lake Washington Institute of Technology. Last June 19, in the wake of the death of George Floyd, the school held an event called Courageous Conversations which was based partly on Robin DiAngelo’s book White Fragility. The event was mandatory in the sense that the school’s president sent an email asking every professor to attend unless they had a conflict with their teaching schedule. It was also segregated by race, meaning whites i
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