Posted on 02/10/2023 11:01:40 AM PST by Twotone
The identity politics industry is on the qui vive to discover symptoms of racism unrecognized until now. Whiteness, a barrier to racial justice, is a malign condition to which “white” people are peculiarly susceptible. Hidden clues are everywhere. None are too absurd to go unexamined by race-stalkers in academia. Even white paint is suspect.
Are there racist implications to the many global uses of the chemical compound titanium dioxide (TiO2)? Has the pigment derived from it — titanium white — contributed to white supremacy? Is the universal prevalence of titanium white a signifier of oppressive Western ideology?
Whiteness studies are a gravy train for grant-seeking academics throughout a declining West. Since TiO2 and titanium white were developed by two Norwegian chemists in the 1910s, Norway is funding an audit of its own role in the spread of white privilege.
The Research Council of Norway has granted 12 million Norwegian Krone (about $1.2 million) to the University of Bergen to “investigate” the baneful “planetary consequences” of white paint. Entitled “How Norway Made the World Whiter (NorWhite),” the project states its claim on public funding: “Whiteness is one of today’s key societal and political concerns.”
An additional $288,000 from the Norwegian Artistic Research Program goes to Oslo National Academy of the Arts for a sister project: “The Materiality of White (MoW).” This postmodern grift ponders whiteness in the concrete, the solid stuff of it: “The aim of the project is to highlight TiO2’s materiality and ubiquity, and to contribute to critical thinking on the color white and its mineral origin.” MoW asks the decisive question: “Do we need our world to be more white?”
The answer was baked into the initial grant applications.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
I wanna see it painted
Painted black
Black as night
Black as coal
I wanna see the sun
Blotted out from the sky
I wanna see it painted, painted, painted
Painted black, yeah
I’m sick of the Navy’s RACIST dress whites! /sarc
Next up is to ban prisms. We’ll have prism burning events.
We all know that if you put all the colors of the rainbow into a prism, out comes a ray of white.
All roads and crosswalks should be striped with black paint.
I’m going to buy a white car, and while wearing an all white outfit, I will blast “White Room” by Cream whilst driving through North Philly flying double salutes...
I thought this was another Babylon Bee homerun.
I have an all white car.
paint everything black
that should help with global warming
Exactly: and even Norway’s enviro-centric culture will figure that out in a hurry... white paint is appropriate where reflection is required; black paint for absorption.
It ain’t culture. It’s science.
#PaintItBlack #TheRollingStones #OfficialLyricVideo
The world is the inheritance of only People of Color, right?
White is a color. That’s what it implies on the side of a Crayola box, where the names of the colors of various crayons ae listed.
People of Northern European origin are not, strictly speaking, white in color, they are more of a range from pink to tan.
Only the darkest storm clouds are not racist.
And what is up with that blue sky when the clouds are gone? Must be because of those dang Smurf Supremacists..
I drive an all white truck ... so there.
A girl once told me that she never noticed that so many everyday things were white.. until she had that first period...
The biggest problem today is not throwing these insane individuals into a room with soft walls and no sharp objects where they can’t hurt anyone or themselves.
They should not be taken seriously.
The color white is being blackballed.
I’m afraid to own a black car because they are unsafe at night. Can’t see them as well.
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