I've looked and looked through our archives, but I can't find it. It was a post about a slide listing characteristics of white supremacy … things like "feeling a sense of urgency." At the time I did some research to find out where all of this nonsense had come from … I believe it was a "study" by two people back in 2010 or so. In any case, their research has been picked up by progressive culture and put on display — literally. In 2020, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture put up a display on "Aspects and Assumptions of Whiteness and White Culture in the United States."
So, what are some of these assumptions of whiteness? Self-reliance. The nuclear family. An emphasis on the scientific method. Objective, rational linear thinking. Hard work is the key to success. Punctuality. Following rigid time schedules. "Worship" of the written word.
Jason Rantz has a piece on how this definition of whiteness has infiltrated a Seattle high school.
World Literature and Composition students were told that “Worship of the Written Word” is white supremacy because it is “an erasure of the wide range of ways we communicate with each other.”
— Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) February 15, 2024
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Rantz writes:
Students in a Seattle English class were told that their love of reading and writing is a characteristic of “white supremacy,” in the latest Seattle Public Schools high school controversy. The lesson plan has one local father speaking out, calling it “educational malpractice.”
As part of the Black Lives Matter at School Week, World Literature and Composition students at Lincoln High School were given a handout with definitions of the “9 characteristics of white supremacy,” according to the father of a student. Given the subject matter of the class, the father found it odd this particular lesson was brought up.
The Seattle high schoolers were told that “Worship of the Written Word” is white supremacy because it is “an erasure of the wide range of ways we communicate with each other.” By this definition, the very subject of World Literature and Composition is racist. It also chides the idea that we hyper-value written communication because it’s a form of “honoring only what is written and even then only what is written to a narrow standard, full of misinformation and lies.” The worksheet does not provide any context for what it actually means.
Rantz says the worksheet labels “objectivity,” “individualism,” and “perfectionism” as white supremacy. That's why I wish I could find that old post … it had a photo of a slide listing all of the components of white supremacy. That's why schools have decided that showing your work on a math problem is white supremacy. Turning in assignments on time is white supremacy. I wish I were kidding.
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There's a graphic I'll probably use with this post — the slide about "Healing from Internalized Whiteness." That's an actual course you can take.
Maybe it's just because I'm white that all of these white supremacist beliefs sound good to me. Emphasis on the scientific method? The Protestant work ethic? Believing that you can get ahead through hard work. This is all whiteness and whiteness needs to be disrupted.
Anything to destroy the foundations of civilization.
— RubyRight (@RubyR68) February 15, 2024
American civilization, which was founded on whiteness. That's why you hear of systemic racism — racism was built into the country by the founders and influences everything from education to the justice system.
It's all nonsense and I wish I could find the paper that started it all. Just Google "white supremacy culture" and see what comes up. Not surprisingly, the National Education Association has an online toolkit of "resources to sharpen our racial analysis and deepen our understanding of White Supremacy Culture." Got to get to the kids early.
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