White Critical Race Theory darling Robin DiAngelo accused of plagiarizing minority authors in her doctoral thesis

The author of the New York Times bestseller White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo, has been accused of plagiarizing works from minority authors in her doctoral thesis.

The complaint, obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, was filed with the University of Washington, from which DiAngelo received her Ph.D. in multicultural education. The complaint regards her 2004 dissertation, "Whiteness in Racial Dialogue: A Discourse Analysis."

DiAngelo is accused of pulling two paragraphs from Northeastern University's Thomas Nakayama, an Asian-American professor, and his coauthor Robert Krizek without proper attribution and omitting quotation marks and in-text citations. Large chunks of text from the authors' work were used in DiAngelo's piece, with words here and there splitting the sections up.

She is also accused of pulling from University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Stacey Lee, an Asian-American professor of education, in which Lee was summarizing the work of scholar David Theo Goldberg. Dozens of cases of passing off others’ work as her own were discovered.