The National Museum of African American History and Culture goes full white supremacist

“Whiteness,” reads the headline to a museum webpage dedicated specifically to the organization’s efforts to explain white people. “Since white people in America hold most of the political, institutional, and economic power, they receive advantages that nonwhite groups do not.”

You know this does not get better from here, right?

The Smithsonian webpage, which is maintained by the federal government, includes an astonishingly racist graphic titled, “Aspects and assumptions of whiteness and white culture in the United States.”

These “aspects and assumptions” include but are not limited to “rugged individualism,” respect for authority, being polite, and even punctuality. The graphic continues, claiming that white people place a premium on hard work, competitive drive, the “nuclear family,” objectivity, the “scientific method,” self-reliance, and hope.

The obvious implication here is that nonwhites (blacks, Latinos, Asians, and others) are monolithic, lawless, impolite, selfish, lazy, apathetic, irrational, backwards, dependent, and hopeless.

Wait — did a white supremacist design this graphic?

Indeed, the idea that the aforementioned “aspects and assumptions,” politeness, hard work, tradition, law-abiding, etc., are exclusive somehow to white people sounds an awful lot like something you would hear at a rally where David Duke is the keynote speaker.

“Whiteness and white racialized identity refer to the way that white people, their customs, culture, and beliefs operate as the standard by which all other groups of [sic] are compared,” reads the museum’s webpage on “whiteness.”

It continues, “Whiteness is also at the core of understanding race in America. Whiteness and the normalization of white racial identity throughout America’s history have created a culture where nonwhite persons are seen as inferior or abnormal.”

Of course, the page goes on to address so-called white privilege.

“This white-dominant culture also operates as a social mechanism that grants advantages to white people, since they can navigate society both by feeling normal and being viewed as normal. Persons who identify as white rarely have to think about their racial identity because they live within a culture where whiteness has been normalized,” it says.

“Thinking about race is very different for nonwhite persons living in America. People of color must always consider their racial identity, whatever the situation, due to the systemic and interpersonal racism that still exists,” it adds. “Whiteness (and its accepted normality) also exist as everyday microaggressions toward people of color. Acts of microaggressions include verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs or insults toward nonwhites. Whether intentional or not, these attitudes communicate hostile, derogatory, or harmful messages.”

Speaking of hostile and insulting, this entire presentation on “whiteness” is both. It is especially insulting that the webpage, which, again, is administered by the U.S. government, includes a video of the high priestess of the church of the woke, former corporate consultant and full-time pseudo-scientific Hitlerian racialist Robin DiAngelo.

Congratulations, museum staffers. You went so far down the rabbit hole of being racially and politically liberal, you came out the other side as full-blown white supremacists. Well done, indeed.