I'll just leave this here without comment.

https://nypost.com/2023/01/20/...ite-paint-is-racist/

Norwegian government funds research to find out if white paint is racist

By Taylor Penley, Fox News
January 20, 2023 3:04pm


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, dubbed 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.

The Research Council of Norway, a government agency, is funding the study by University of Bergen associate professor and historian Ingrid Halland through a grant of 12 million Norwegian Krone (about $1.2 million US) to explore the paint color’s historical legacy, its origins in Norway, and features images of several of the nation’s buildings plastered in the color.

“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 is also sponsored by two of the major companies that contributed to titanium white paint’s prevalence in the country — Titania A/S, which extracts ore for use in titanium-based products, and Kronos Titan, which produces the titanium dioxide pigment.

The study cites that titanium dioxide is 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.

The University of Bergen study is only the latest example of higher education making “whiteness” a focus.

In the United States last year, Los Angeles Public Schools enforced the idea that “merit” and “individualism” were concepts originating from “whiteness” and must be questioned.

Fox News Digital obtained documents from government watchdog group Judicial Watch last year indicating the United States Military Academy at West Point was also among the institutions taking hits at “whiteness” last year with its critical race theory-based curriculum.

When will this stop.... when I say.

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overall objective of NorWhite is to critically and visually investigate

Ummm, I'm just going to hazard an educated guess here that, given the objective of the study, anybody supporting or participating in the study has absolutely zero aptitude for critical thought and investigation. So, this is just set up to fail no matter what. Even if the conclusion is acceptable to the rationale, the conclusion was likely reached as a matter of luck rather than through merit.

I mean, for fuck's sake, have they lost their fucking minds?

I never did trust that shady looking Bher, same with Duron, don't even get me started with that Sherwin Williams. I knew they was up to no good.

I'll save them a bunch of research and trouble, in today's fucked up world, YES.

Now send me my $1.2 million.

No, but aspirin is.

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Originally posted by Excam_Man:
I'll save them a bunch of research and trouble, in today's fucked up world, YES.

Now send me my $1.2 million.

Probably going to need a coauthor on that for legitimacy. I'll take $500k, you take $700k

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Originally posted by OKCGene:
No, but aspirin is.

Just the drug starting with “as” (ass) used in its “pronoun” is anti prison “LBGQMIOW!THATHURTS#45ACPMFER” community…think of all the TikTok creators being offended…how can you sleep at night?

Next, toilet paper.

Ok weird ass coincidence. I'm listening this YouTube video and at 24 minute mark, boom TiO2. Crazy.

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Originally posted by konata88:

I mean, for fuck's sake, have they lost their fucking minds?

For this to be a hypothesis…you first have to believe the have an inkling of a fucking mind to lose in the first place…just watch some of ‘The View, CNN or MSNBC along with clips from the “legacy media channels” on YouTube…I rest my case…nothing in this fucking “Clown world” surprises me anymore ….I’m gonna stick to watching Viking themed YouTube video shorts with chicks doing “Viking” makeup and awesome bass dudes singing ‘My Mother Told Me’ while accompanied by bagpipes…I’ve damned near reached that point…plus they are more entertaining than Nuttinfancy’s fucking lame assed bullshit

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Originally posted by Skins2881:

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Originally posted by Excam_Man:
I'll save them a bunch of research and trouble, in today's fucked up world, YES.

Now send me my $1.2 million.

Probably going to need a coauthor on that for legitimacy. I'll take $500k, you take $700k

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Wow y’all are chopping in High Cotton…I’m willing to settle for a $10 gift card from Chick-Fill-A for a good lunch sammach …still missing their cole slaw though

By this logic, Norway itself (and the other Scandinavian countries) must also be racist, being what, 99% white?

As y’all can see from the time stamp it’s 3:00 AM in Tennessee…who sleeps and what exactly is that…I hate to but I might just have to take an Ambein to crash…if I do I’ll see y’all about noon:30 tomorrow…insomnia sucks out loud

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Originally posted by egregore:
By this logic, Norway itself (and the other Scandinavian countries) must also be racist, being what, 99% white?

Of course, they probably learned that from The Salvation Army.

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Originally posted by Bisleyblackhawk:
As y’all can see from the time stamp it’s 3:00 AM in Tennessee…who sleeps and what exactly is that…I hate to but I might just have to take an Ambein to crash…if I do I’ll see y’all about noon:30 tomorrow…insomnia sucks out loud

Nah, I welcome insomnia.

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overall objective of NorWhite is to critically and visually investigate

I mean, for fuck's sake, have they lost their fucking minds?

Yes they have and I'm not sure how it'll get worse but it will.
I'm not even shocked anymore at any of this fuckery.

has anybody ever figure out that 'white' people really aren't 'white'?

I think it's really gotten down to:

"who can I blame for what ever I can come up with to justify my being an asshole"

Yeah, but I don't get an ESG discount if I use a paint of color.

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Originally posted by Bisleyblackhawk:
Wow y’all are chopping in High Cotton

He said "high cotton".