{"id":7401,"date":"2022-03-06T19:23:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T19:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7401"},"modified":"2022-03-06T19:23:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T19:23:37","slug":"educators-please-stop-teaching-the-characteristics-of-white-supremacy-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7401","title":{"rendered":"Educators, Please Stop Teaching the Characteristics of ‘White Supremacy Culture’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“The entire presentation is available online,<\/a> and it’s just as cringeworthy as its conservative critics expected. Notably, the presenters cite the antiracist educator Tema Okun’s “White Supremacy Culture<\/a>” a body of dubious work<\/a> that makes all sorts of unfounded and frankly racist assumptions. Indeed, the presentation includes a slide, “15 Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture”\u2014though the slide only mentions five\u2014that claims possessing a sense of urgency, preferring quantity over quality, wanting things to be written down, perfectionism, and becoming defensive are aspects of white supremacy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defensiveness and perfectionism, when taken to excess, can contribute to unpleasant work, school, and social environments. But there is nothing that connects them to whiteness. A boss who sends too many memos may annoy his employees; it doesn’t mean he is a white supremacist, or is propping up whiteness as a construct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, there’s a danger in ascribing to “white culture” qualities that are, in many cases, positive.\u00a0Similar work<\/a>\u00a0by Judith Katz, another antiracism expert, lists timeliness, planning for the future, self-reliance, being polite, and respect for authority as “aspects and assumptions of white culture.” Timeliness and politeness are good things that have nothing to do with whiteness. Moreover, it would be wrong\u2014and, again, racist\u2014to teach kids of color that if they work hard and plan for their futures, they are betraying their heritage.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/02\/04\/characteristics-of-white-supremacy-culture-washington-university\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The entire presentation is available online, and it’s just as cringeworthy as its conservative critics expected. Notably, the presenters cite the antiracist educator Tema Okun’s “White Supremacy Culture” a body of dubious work that makes all sorts of unfounded and frankly racist assumptions. Indeed, the presentation includes a slide, “15 Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture”\u2014though the slide only mentions five\u2014that claims possessing a sense of urgency, preferring quantity over quality, wanting things to be written down, perfectionism, and becoming defensive are aspects of white supremacy.<\/p>\n

Defensiveness and perfectionism, when taken to excess, can contribute to unpleasant work, school, and social environments. But there is nothing that connects them to whiteness. A boss who sends too many memos may annoy his employees; it doesn’t mean he is a white supremacist, or is propping up whiteness as a construct.<\/p>\n

In fact, there’s a danger in ascribing to “white culture” qualities that are, in many cases, positive. Similar work by Judith Katz, another antiracism expert, lists timeliness, planning for the future, self-reliance, being polite, and respect for authority as “aspects and assumptions of white culture.” Timeliness and politeness are good things that have nothing to do with whiteness. Moreover, it would be wrong\u2014and, again, racist\u2014to teach kids of color that if they work hard and plan for their futures, they are betraying their heritage.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[356,642,357,939,1022],"class_list":["post-7401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-education","tag-race","tag-school","tag-teachers","tag-white-supremacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7402,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7401\/revisions\/7402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}