WEIRD, White Ideas
What DEI and Critical Theorists Get Wrong About “Whiteness”
What is a “white idea”? What exactly is “whiteness”? Well, as silly as it sounds, Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity (DEI) organizations that help to form policy for governmental and private organizations have often framed certain personal characteristics as being forms of “whiteness” or even “white supremacy.”
This is what they’re doing and what they think: Whiteness is the cultural framework for white majority societies characterized by expectations that are culturally specific to success for white people. So any non-white people living in a culture dominated by “white ideas” are at an automatic disadvantage. Those who are successful in those societies are internalizing whiteness or white supremacy to win the game of whiteness. Or as Michael Eric Dyson says, “they are internalizing white racism.”
But people who think like this are making the same mistake their gender ideology comrades are making when they tell us that gender is a social construct. What they define as “whiteness” and gender are social constructs, but they’re tied to underlying realities which produce those constructs. They’re…
