Even White Paint Is Racist Now

Identity politics is trying to find the causes of racism, which have not been recognized until now. Whiteness, which is a barrier to racial equality, is a dangerous condition. “white” People are extremely sensitive. There are many hidden clues. There are many that can be overlooked by academia-racists. Even white paint is suspect.

Are there any racist implications for the many worldwide uses of titanium dioxide (TiO2) Has the pigment derived from it — titanium white — contributed to white supremacy? Does the widespread use of titanium white signify oppressive Western ideology

Grant-seeking academics in a West that is declining are attracted to whiteness studies. Norway funds an audit of its role in white privilege’s spread, since TiO2 was developed in Norway by two Norwegian chemists back in 1910.

The University of Bergen has received 12 million Norwegian Krone from the Research Council of Norway (or about $1.2 million). “investigate” The baneful “planetary consequences” Use white paint Entitled “How Norway Made the World Whiter (NorWhite),” The claim for public funding is made by the project: “Whiteness is one of today’s key societal and political concerns.”

A sister project is funded by $288,000 additional from the Norwegian Artistic Research Program. “The Materiality of White (MoW).” This postmodern grift contemplates whiteness in concrete, the solid stuff. “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 a decisive question “Do we need our world to be more white?”

This was the answer that was incorporated into the initial grant applications. This joint “theoretical and critical reflection” TiO2 points point in one direction: toward the stigmatization “white” people — of whatever ethnicity — by other means. This project is an accredited version the ancient practice branding. The “problem” of whiteness is academia’s variant of the mark of Cain, a stain on the flesh.

Ingrid Halland, chief investigator and fundraiser, stated this in an interview with Morgenbladet. “We are not claiming Norway has launched racist attitudes.” It is not. It is not. “politics of whiteness” They are so deeply embedded in a system of power dynamics that they do not require any visible racism.

The NorWhite study is a corrosive mélange of leading questions, buzzwords, and innuendo that implies what it does not openly claim. It is simply a study. “examines” how titanium white pigment — “a superior color” — “led to an aesthetic desire for white surfaces, but was also connected to racist attitudes.” TiO2 circulates as universally as racism. “through our material, biologic and economic systems.” It is “virtually present in all techno-natural surfaces globally.” Hint, hint: White is both agent as well as expression of colonization.

Norway is ideally situated to make this hereditary scapegoat. Nearly half of Norway’s land mass lies above the Arctic Circle, where chilly whiteness prevails. That is what Indigenous Norwegians are all about.

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