That is explicitly not what they are saying.
Comment on Rantz: Seattle students told it's 'white supremacy' to love reading, writing
Kaboom@reddthat.com 4 months agoIt doesn’t help when you tell black kids that reading and writing is white people stuff.
PizzaMane@lemm.ee 4 months ago
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Or hard work, being on time, etc.
Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Yes, hard work. People in positions of privilege and power often talk about the importance of hard work. It is a virtue according to those who rest from their labor on the comfortable cushion of capital gains and investment income. Those who prosper from the exploitation of working class people often extoll the merits of dilligence and punctuality.
PizzaMane@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Winter said at one point that they own 3 houses. So yeah, you hit the nail on the head.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 4 months ago
No idea where you are going since that isn’t what the article said.
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Nowhere in the document does it even come close to suggesting that hard work and being on time is a white people thing. You’re just being racist.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 4 months ago
No, it appears you are the racist.
PizzaMane@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Usually people grow out of the “no u” phase shortly after grade 5.
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Just like OP’s article, this one is again missing the point trying to be made. I can see how the Smithsonian updated their page to try and clarify things.
The graphic is saying the values of white anglo-saxon protestants have become the expected values everyone in the US should have.
Valuing rational thought doesn’t mean white people are rational and black people aren’t. It means, in the US, an artistic person isn’t valued as much as an engineer. “Hard work is the key to success” doesn’t mean white people work hard and black people are lazy. It means, in the US, it’s thought that poor people are only poor because they didn’t work hard enough.
The Smithsonian wasn’t saying these values are good or bad. It was saying these values dominate US culture and they come from the values of white anglo-saxon protestants.
There’s nothing wrong with valuing art and work-life balance. In a place like France, that would be the norm. Again, history can be used to explain some of that. Around 1685, huge numbers of French protestants left the country, and took their values of “everyone should work hard all the time” with them.
Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Except that no one is saying that.
Even so, if you are suggesting that black people would be murdered less by police, incarcerated less by the corrupt criminal justice system and have higher incomes if they would simply read and write more is still wrong: Breonna Taylor was a honor roll student in highschool and a graduate of the University of Kentucky. She was gainfully employed as a emergency room tech when she was murdered in her own home by police. So presumably she could read and write and show up for work on time but that didn’t help her did it?
So in this thread I see: 1. deliberate misrepresentation of info about white supremacy and 2. blaming nonwhite people for the effects of white supremacy.