Those aspects of society that overtly and covertly attribute value and
normality to white people and Whiteness, and devalue, stereotype, and label
people of color as "other", different, less than, or render them invisible.
Examples of these norms include defining white skin tones as nude or flesh
colored, having a future time orientation, emphasizing individualism as opposed
to a more collective ideology, defining one form of English as standard, and
identifying only Whites as great writers or composers.
Please! I'm afraid I could probably slide by on "having a future time orientation" because I'm such a present-oriented slacker, but I totally turn up racist on the "emphasizing individualism as opposed to a more collective ideology" coin.
Is it just me, or is the idea that valuing individualism and planning for the future are Whites-only values in itself incredibly racist? That was a rhetorical question: it's not just me, of course. This is the equivalent to suggesting that a liking for apple pie is 'cultural racism'. Or maybe they have another category - call it "gastronomical racism": "The desire to eat bland foods, boiled or baked; the identificationon of pastry as the highest art form; the dislike of maize as a bread grain."
How anyone can stomach sending their children off to be instructed by such fools and charlatans is beyond me.
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