“White Time”.

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.

With the exclusion of one: Everyone from soldiers to food inspectors to cancer researchers to immigrant screeners are now hired because of their skin colour

At the time of writing, the University of Toronto is listing two separate job openings that are explicitly barred for white men. The school is hiring a researcher that must be “Black-identifying.”

And they are hiring an assistant professor of computational biology that must be either non-white, disabled or identifying “at the current time” as one of the following: Women, trans, nonbinary, Two-Spirit or gender fluid.