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Professors Brand Niceness as ‘Enduring Component of Whiteness’

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Professors Brand Niceness as ‘Enduring Component of Whiteness’ Academics from four major universities have combined on a study designed to brand niceness a strategy for advancing White privilege, in the latest effort by progressive professors to manufacture a new form of racism to condemn. The paper, titled “ Niceness as Whiteness in School Police Officers’ Perceptions of Student Arrest ,” interprets interviews with school resource officers (SROs) in ways that enable them to provide “evidence” that niceness advantages White people. The study was produced by Vanderbilt Postdoctoral Research Fellow Abigail Beneke, Professors Benjamin Fisher (U. Wisconsin-Madison), F. Chris Curran (U. Florida), and Samantha Viano (George Mason). Niceness, they conclude, is an “enduring component of Whiteness” that “allows predominantly White people to elide how their own actions contribute to inequality by maintaining a sense of their own benevolence.” In their abstract, the researchers claim that nicenes

First report: “Niceness as Whiteness”: Professors Denounce Niceness as Perpetuating White Privilege — jonathanturley.org, 1d