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I don't have direct knowledge of DiAngelo's client roster but my impression was that she speaks mostly to private-sector white collar knowledge workers. Unionization is rarely an issue in these settings. (Newspapers being a notable exception).

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This NYT Magazine article gives some info on the companies seeking her out, and it's some of the biggest companies in the world, though I'm not sure how many are bringing her in for lectures and for multi-day seminars. I always think about the anecdote about the talk she gave at Levi's where no one from senior leadership was there because they were all at a shareholders' meeting.

David Dayen and Lee Fang have done some reporting on how companies are now using social justice/DEI language to stop unionization campaigns.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/magazine/white-fragility-robin-diangelo.html

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Thanks for the tip. First I'm hearing of a linkage between DEI and unionization.

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Same here but its not the first IтАЩm hearing of identity politics being used by the elites to divide and conquer. I've seen this meme rolling around for years:

https://ifunny.co/picture/introduce-them-to-identity-politics-lK08mfWn9

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