Zakia Essanhaji, a professor of “organizational ethnography” at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, is the latest to make the case against “white time.” Her recent paper titled “Academic time theft: stealing time, producing racialized inclusion in Dutch academia” builds on prior work condemning time as racist.
Rutgers Women’s and Gender Studies/Africana Studies Professor Brittney Cooper has also written about how time is racist. Mainstream media has positively cooed at the suggestion, including an interview with NPR. Cooper claimed that “white people own time” after framing the concept of time in “histories of European and Western thought.”
There is also apparently black time: “Time has a history, and so do black people. But we treat time as though it is timeless, as though it has always been this way, as though it doesn’t have a political history bound up with the plunder of indigenous lands, the genocide of indigenous people and the stealing of Africans from their homeland.”
Or, you know, the history of the earth’s travel around the sun.
Paying professors is also racist.
That prof should be working in a mine a a member or the proletariat.
Multiculturalism has never worked anywhere! I’m also doubtful about certain ‘religions’ that are clearly incompatible with others, and in fact try to eliminate the competition!
Orwell was right:
“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”
― George Orwell
“But we treat time as though it is timeless,…”
Wow. Profound.
Worthy of repetition.
By drips and drivellers.
Such academics are to western civilization what sugar in your gas tank is to a running engine.
“ Rutgers Women’s and Gender Studies/Africana Studies Professor Brittney Cooper “
There literally isn’t a day that goes by that my alma mater doesn’t embarrass me!
Picture of this beautiful specimen here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittney_Cooper#/media/File:Brittney_Cooper.jpg
As “Magills” on X always says: “Why are they always so fat?”
From the look of her, she keeps track of lunchtime and suppertime
The fact that Asians are seldom – if ever – included in these narratives is blatant racist. So, for argument’s sake, if an old Japanese lady is punctual, how much different is this old Japanese lady from the brutish white man who keeps time? And pronouns! Pronouns!!! (I think Ionesco would agree.)