So-called “anti-racist” activists such as Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi have become media stars and made millions through their social justice advocacy and its embrace by the society-wide diversity, equity, and inclusion movement. But, rather than promoting tolerance or acceptance, it turns out that their ideas may actually be making society more divided and toxic.

At least, that’s the finding of a bombshell new study from the Network Contagion Research Institute. It examined the actual effect that DEI-style teachings from the likes of DiAngelo, who wrote the bestseller White Fragility, have on people and found that these narratives “heighten racial suspicion, prejudicial attitudes, authoritarian policing, and support for punitive behaviors in the absence of evidence for a transgression deserving punishment.”