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Posted on 01/19/2023 1:29:17 PM PST by fluorescence
Is white paint racist? Norway's University of Bergen is exploring that question, asking how the aesthetic of white paint helped the nation contribute to white supremacy and helped "[make] the world whiter."
"Whiteness is not only a cultural and societal condition tied to skin color, privileges, and systematic exclusion, but materialize everywhere around us," a rundown of the study read.
"Although Norway is not a conventional colonial power, this project will show how the country has played a globally leading role in establishing white as a superior color," it said. "Until now, however, this story has been lesser known to scholars and the public."
The study on whiteness and paint, coined as NorWhite, observes the Norwegian-developed paint pigment titanium white through "historical, aesthetic, and critical" lenses to determine how the development of the color contributed to "social transformation" as well as how the innovation led to "planetary consequences."
"Currently the Norwegian innovation TiO2 [titanium dioxide] is present in literally every part of modern life…The primary research question is: What are the cultural and aesthetic changes instigated by titanium white and TiO2 surfaces – and how can both the material in itself and these changes be conceptualized and made visible?" the description asks.
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"The overall objective of NorWhite is to critically and visually investigate the cultural and aesthetic preconditions of a complex and unexplored part of Norwegian technology and innovation history that has—as this project claims—made the world whiter," the description concluded.
The study cites that titanium dioxide is currently a part of everyday life, including in food, paper, tattoos, synthetic textiles, cosmetics and more in addition to altering the country's architectural aesthetic through a brighter, more opaque color, and research aims to dissect the historical development that "revolutionized the color-industry" with an "absolute white" color.
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When I saw the headline I was 100% certain it was from the Bee.
Aluminum Oxide is def racis’.
Using/owning bathroom fixtures is cultural appropriation.
This must be a practical joke.
Was it racist to ask a Norwegian academic: why the long face?
The world is only 16% white people.
“...and helped “[make] the world whiter.”...”
Is not being not white contributing to Climate Disaster?
What? ... What?
yes it is
but it also helps with global warming
what a conundrum
There’s a lot of snow in Norway. If white paint is racist, then snow is too. What about the clouds? Will white cornbread be outlawed?
When you consider all the morons out there, the wonder is that the world’s not in worse trouble than it is.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....
I knew it, first they come for my gas stove now they want my white toilet!
This HAD to have been started on 4chan.
Unlike in many countries in the Americas and Asia, the roads in most European countries are striped entirely in white. So that means all these roads are now racist?
You will only be allowed to eat corn cake. It’s yellow, and thus respectful of America’s Asian minority. /sarc
What about Navajo White paint?
So it’s White paint.
Only humans can be racist. Inert objects cannot be racist.
What next? What will be branded racist next in their quest to totally destroy sanity and civilization?
and yet...
Ultra-White Paint May Someday Replace Air Conditioning
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