“Niceness as Whiteness”: Professors Denounce Niceness as White Privilege

JONATHAN TURLEY (blog) ^ | August 11, 2026 | JONATHAN TURLEY

[Salman]

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The paper “Niceness as Whiteness in School Police Officers’ Perceptions of Student Arrest” addresses the “perceptions of arrest” by school resource officers, or SROs) in two school districts.

The officers appear to be precisely what you are looking for in an SRO: empathetic and reluctant to make arrests. The researchers admit that they try to avoid arrests. However, according to the authors, hidden behind those sympathetic approaches was, of course, a boiling caldron of racism in terms of the racial disparity of those arrested.

Indeed, the researchers realized that it was the niceness itself that was the evidence of oppressive “Whiteness.” Indeed, the officers may not want to be engines of racism and use “niceness” as a “coping mechanism,” but do so by deluding themselves and others that they are nice

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TOPICS: Education; Politics
KEYWORDS: abigailbeneke; benjaminfisher; fchriscurran; georgemason; samanthaviano; uflorida; uwmadison; vanderbilt

[BenLurkin]

he researchers realized that it was the niceness itself that was the evidence of oppressive “Whiteness.”

The problem in this instance is not 'race'. The problem is these beard-scratching "experts"

[Hyman Roth]

These people are very mentally ill.

[KarlInOhio]

Am I the only one who hates the term “school resource officer”? That sounds like the person in charge of ordering erasers and sheets of gold stars rather than cuffing school thugs.

[Never trust a politician]

And look at THIS garbage:

From the department of education! our tax dollars at work! what the hell?!?

https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1489123

“Peer reviewed
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ERIC Number: EJ1489123
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 23
Abstractor: As Provided
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EISSN: EISSN-1068-2341
Available Date: 0000-00-00
Students as Risk Objects: Willful White Ignorance in the School Policing Debate
Martha Perez-Mugg; Rebecca M. Taylor
Education Policy Analysis Archives, v33 n70 2025

Anyone who had anything to do with this should be fired, flogged, disenfranchised, and deported.

[cgbg]

Good post.

That is a good example of why the Department of Education needs to be abolished.

Attempts to “fix it” are doomed to failure.

[ComputerGuy]

At least they spelled White with a capital letter.

[Sicon]

Why don’t they step pussy-footing around, and come right out and say that white people breathing is racist?

[Da Coyote]

Let us admit that shoud academics wish to keep the title of Professor on the respected list, it should NOT be applied to anyone in the Lib Arts side of the house.

These clowns wouldn’t qualify as toilet cleaners in any real business.

Give them the derision that they so thoroughly deserve.

[Pontiac]

Indeed, the researchers realized that it was the niceness itself that was the evidence of oppressive “Whiteness.”

Let me get this straight (if that is even possible).

If I am polite to a Black person, I am oppressing that person.

If I am solicitative of a Black person's comfort and well-being, I am oppressing that person.

Well, why not? After all everything else the Left has said about racial relations for the last 50 years has been BS. Why not this?!

[NorthMountain]

This kind of nonsense is the foundation of “Black Fatigue” ... for a certain fraction of the “black community” ... and I’m not sure how big this fraction really is ... Everything is always about “race”. White == bad, black == good. It is beyond tiresome.

[Dr. Franklin]

Am I the only one who hates the term “school resource officer”? That sounds like the person in charge of ordering erasers and sheets of gold stars rather than cuffing school thugs.

For those of us who remember when the teachers and school disciplinarian handled student conduct themselves, they aren't necessary and a waste of tax payer money. Kick a few troublemakers out of school, and cops won't be needed in schools.

[Honorary Serb]

As a PhD and a former academic myself (in STEM), I would like to see current academics uphold the traditional standards of the profession!

That especially includes refraining from and combatting propaganda! Teach truth, NOT wokeness!

[equaviator]

When it comes to assholes, I won’t be nice. I’ll just kill ‘em with kindness.

[sjmjax]

These people are very mentally ill.

Absolutely! Proud that your culture and skin color represents rudeness, vulgarity, self-centeredness and violence.

[NorthMountain]

Here it is, straight: You are "white" therefore you are evil ... subhuman, even.

[one guy in new jersey]

NFN but plenty of white people are behaving towards other white people in a straight-up nasty manner.

Needlessly, gratuitously, notoriously, nasty.

Not sure if this is a recent trend, but try and tell This Guy he’s lying!

[dfwgator]

[metmom]

If being nice is *white*, what does that say about non-white?

[sauropod]

Wow!