Norwegian government funds research to find out if white paint is racist

Fox News ^ | January 19, 2023 | Taylor Penley

[fluorescence]

Is white paint racist? Norway's University of Bergen is exploring that question, asking how the aesthetic of white paint helped the nation contribute to white supremacy and helped "[make] the world whiter."

"Whiteness is not only a cultural and societal condition tied to skin color, privileges, and systematic exclusion, but materialize everywhere around us," a rundown of the study read.

"Although Norway is not a conventional colonial power, this project will show how the country has played a globally leading role in establishing white as a superior color," it said. "Until now, however, this story has been lesser known to scholars and the public."

The study on whiteness and paint, coined as NorWhite, observes the Norwegian-developed paint pigment titanium white through "historical, aesthetic, and critical" lenses to determine how the development of the color contributed to "social transformation" as well as how the innovation led to "planetary consequences."

"Currently the Norwegian innovation TiO2 [titanium dioxide] is present in literally every part of modern life…The primary research question is: What are the cultural and aesthetic changes instigated by titanium white and TiO2 surfaces – and how can both the material in itself and these changes be conceptualized and made visible?" the description asks. 

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"The overall objective of NorWhite is to critically and visually investigate the cultural and aesthetic preconditions of a complex and unexplored part of Norwegian technology and innovation history that has—as this project claims—made the world whiter," the description concluded.

The study cites that titanium dioxide is currently a part of everyday life, including in food, paper, tattoos, synthetic textiles, cosmetics and more in addition to altering the country's architectural aesthetic through a brighter, more opaque color, and research aims to dissect the historical development that "revolutionized the color-industry" with an "absolute white" color.

[KarlInOhio]

The study cites that titanium dioxide is currently a part of everyday life, including in food, paper, tattoos, synthetic textiles, cosmetics and more in addition to altering the country's architectural aesthetic through a brighter, more opaque color, and research aims to dissect the historical development that "revolutionized the color-industry" with an "absolute white" color.

Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to titanating water, why, there are studies underway to titanate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk, ice cream? Ice cream, Mandrake? Children's ice cream!...You know when titanation first began?...1946. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war White Supremacists conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way a hard-core Whitey works.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember my art teacher fifty years ago in Tulsa looking at an oil painting on display at the Tulsa County Library and exclaiming to her teacher husband,....”OH MY GOD! HE USED BLACK!”

I did not know black was “verboten” in art work till that moment.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Perhaps we should go back to the highly poisonous Lead White.

[Tellurian]

Summer is racist, and obviously a manifestation of white supremacy. All those hours of white sunlight can only be explained by Summer's intense hatred for the black night.

Whites must atone for enjoying the racist summer by moving underground and embracing their inner Ork.

[Honest Nigerian]

I came for the comments.
Titanium White is going to have a tough time getting a date with anyone from a different tribe.
Ooohhh….. how sad. Extinction event!?

[Louis Foxwell]

Dwelling on the most superfluous aspects of racism is the work of racism.

[StrictConstructionist]

Is black paint racist?

[Paladin2]

Norway was a colony of Denmark for a while.

[cgbg]

In the old days children were stupid and then got smarter as they get older.

These days children go to school and get dumber and dumber until they get graduate degrees and become self-hating morons!

[Paladin2]

Whitecaps?

The wind B racis’

[LizzieD]

I don’t know how to tell these people that “white” people aren’t actually white like white paint is white. Apparently the lunatics are running other countries too.

[Paladin2]

In Kindergarten, we used “Flesh” crayons for people and “White” Crayons for ghosts.

[Faith Presses On]

And how much are some white people making from conducting this study?

[Savage Beast]

Well said. You nailed it.

[lepton]

Visual contrast is a thing. Produce black on black documents for use by knuckleheads.

[lepton]

It is generally better to use a very dark color to using actual pure black. Black can be used to darken, but there is seldom good reason to put pure black on a painting, as almost nothing you would be painting would be or appear to be such.

[SauronOfMordor]

Black paint apparently creates issues for oil painting

https://garybolyer.com/2011/08/11/should-you-use-black-or-not-for-the-serious-oil-painter-it-is-a-serious-question/