Our thanks to the incomparable and super-woke Titania McGrath for compiling this running list of things that are racist. We’ve done what we can here to help Twitchy readers steer away from racist things such as butter, cereal mascots, “master bedrooms,” and The Masters golf tournament, but a lot of them slipped past us.
We hope you can read the headlines below if only to prove to yourself they’re real.
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Brave social justice activists such as myself are working tirelessly to expose *all* the racist elements within our society.
Sometimes it is difficult to keep up, so I thought it would be helpful to curate a comprehensive list…
— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) July 9, 2020
THINGS THAT ARE RACIST
(part 1)• Golf
• Bedrooms
• Jesus
• Chess pic.twitter.com/uAPlGj5FxK— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) July 9, 2020
THINGS THAT ARE RACIST
(part 2)• Mahatma Gandhi
• Cartoon characters
• Milk
• Roads pic.twitter.com/2sGThU7Qio— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) July 9, 2020
PETA wants you to “ditch dairy” because cow’s milk “has long been a symbol used by white supremacists” — just like that OK sign.
THINGS THAT ARE RACIST
(part 3)• Band-Aids
• Coronavirus
• Orcs
• Rice pic.twitter.com/YIxTHRsR8E— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) July 9, 2020
THINGS THAT ARE RACIST
(part 4)• Skincare products
• Nurses
• Butter
• Applause pic.twitter.com/tm1CBHaPcf— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) July 9, 2020
THINGS THAT ARE RACIST
(part 5)• Mathematics
• Front lawns
• Breakfast cereals
• Finding Asian men attractive pic.twitter.com/8qdBSJ6PYV— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) July 9, 2020
As long as we’re mentioning front lawns, don’t forget dog parks.
THINGS THAT ARE RACIST
(part 6)• Soap
• Toothpaste
• White people speaking
• White people not speaking pic.twitter.com/LxuNO0fdTe— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) July 9, 2020
THINGS THAT ARE RACIST
(part 7)• Hiking
• Climate change
• Ice cream snacks
• The Golden Girls pic.twitter.com/I9linnRUaj— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) July 9, 2020
THINGS THAT ARE RACIST
(part 8)• Biological sex
• Asking “how are you?”
• The Oscars
• Knitting pic.twitter.com/J2IRGrOFRL— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) July 9, 2020
Real headline from the Independent: “What the white supremacist roots of biological sex reveal about transphobic feminism.”
THINGS THAT ARE RACIST
(part 9)• Cycling
• Breweries
• Air pollution
• Abolishing slavery pic.twitter.com/fHBJNchMxJ— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) July 9, 2020
THINGS THAT ARE RACIST
(part 10)• The countryside
• The suffragette movement
• The medal for the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
• Fish pic.twitter.com/QpddYFd6iF— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) July 9, 2020
Speaking of the countryside, don’t forget America’s national parks, which face an “existential crisis over race.”
THINGS THAT ARE RACIST
(part 11)• Pancake syrup
• Salt
• Traffic signals
• Earthquakes pic.twitter.com/hWwY8mFYre— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath) July 9, 2020
“The Unintentional Racism Found in Traffic Signals.”
That’s all we have from McGrath so far, but if we hear of any additions, we’ll let you know.
Related:
The outdoors is systemically racist: ABC News reports national parks ‘face existential crisis over race,’ are stubbornly white https://t.co/BCKteolJv8
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 2, 2020
