What’s racist?
A partial listing.
TL;DR: Anything that exists or can be imagined, and that can be linked however tenuously to white people, is racist. Note that it is not racist for non-white persons to engage in activities or use speech that would be considered racist when a white person is involved.
| This is racist | Example(s) |
|---|---|
| 911 calls | |
| ACT tests | |
| action orientation | |
| America | https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html |
| anti-white watch groups | |
| archaeology | https://www.jstor.org/stable/40023591?seq=1 |
| art history | |
| asking someone where they are from | |
| avoiding conflict | |
| avoiding intimacy | |
| being white | https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/yes-all-white-people-are-racist-eefa97cc5605 |
| Betsy Ross flag | |
| blondes | |
| border control | |
| camping | |
| cause and effect | |
| celebrating the 4th of July | |
| chess | https://npcdaily.com/1728/classic-board-game-chess-is-problematic-racist-and-bigoted-and-heres-why/ |
| Christianity | |
| Christopher Columbus | https://www.elitedaily.com/news/world/happy-columbus-day-the-day-we-celebrate-a-racist-crusading-murderer |
| claiming that police deter crime | |
| classical literature | |
| cleanliness / neatness | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ032771 |
| climate change | |
| Columbus Day | |
| comparing or referring to Blacks as apes | |
| comparing or referring to Blacks as rhinoceroses | |
| Confederate battle flags | https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3621818/confederate-flag-racist-banned-symbol-white-supremacy/ |
| conservatives | |
| cotton | |
| crime rates | |
| cultural appropriation | |
| decision-making | |
| delayed gratification | |
| desegregation | |
| disagreeing with non-whites about non-racial matters | |
| discipline | |
| dismissing other cultures | |
| doing something about situations | |
| Donald Trump | |
| Dr. Seuss | https://people.com/books/dr-seuss-books-racist-problematic/ |
| drug laws | |
| eating Mexican food | |
| Electoral College | |
| emphasizing the scientific method | |
| English common law | |
| equal treatment before the law | |
| equal treatment in hiring | |
| equal treatment in school admissions | |
| equality | |
| exams in school | |
| expecting others to speak English | |
| facts | |
| fine art | |
| freeways in Los Angeles | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-06-24/bulldoze-la-freeways-racism-monument |
| genealogy research | |
| Gone With The Wind | |
| grandfathering (legal term) | |
| Hamilton (the play) | |
| hard work as the key to success | |
| healthcare | https://tcf.org/content/report/racism-inequality-health-care-african-americans/ |
| hiding emotions | |
| history | https://www.lifezette.com/2020/08/democrat-demands-history-classes-be-abolished-in-public-schools-because-they-lead-to-white-privilege-and-a-racist-society/ |
| holidays | |
| holidays based on white history | |
| holidays based on white men | |
| housing policies | |
| Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain | |
| husband as the head of the household | |
| ice hockey | |
| ignorance of other cultures | |
| immigration policies | |
| individual control over your life | |
| individualism | |
| inequality | |
| intensions | |
| Jesus | |
| law enforcement | |
| laws | |
| Lego figures | |
| linear thinking | |
| literary history | |
| majority rules | |
| making American great again | |
| mastering and controlling nature | |
| math | https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/10/math-racist-university-illinois-professor/ |
| mentioning "welfare queens" | |
| milk | https://www.peta.org/blog/cows-milk-perfect-drink-supremacists/ |
| monotheism | |
| moving into a non-white neighborhood | https://www.accredited-times.com/2017/02/01/gentrification-is-deeply-racist-and-needs-to-be-reversed/ |
| moving out of a non-white neighborhood | https://qz.com/1251974/white-people-leave-diverse-neighborhoods-for-racial-reasons-not-economic-ones/ |
| mug shots | |
| national parks | |
| Nick Sandmann | https://crooksandliars.com/2019/02/nick-sandmann-cov-cath-smirking-darling |
| nooses | https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/23/us/noose-hate-symbol-racism-trnd/index.html |
| not accepting what non-whites say about "hate crimes" | |
| not accepting what non-whites say about racism | |
| not adopting aspects of other cultures | |
| not being interested in other cultures | |
| not correcting the racism in other white people | |
| not enforcing diversity quotas | |
| not valuing other cultures | |
| not wanting to discuss racial issues | https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414 |
| noticing bad behavior by non-whites | |
| nuclear family | |
| objective thinking | |
| old movies | |
| old TV shows | |
| opposing "affirmative action" | |
| opposing "reparations" | |
| outdoors | |
| planning for the future | |
| police shows | |
| politeness | |
| pollution | |
| private property | |
| progress | |
| proper grammar | |
| quantitative emphasis | |
| rational thinking | |
| red-lining | |
| referring to a non-white person as being "street smart" | |
| refusing to feel guilty for being white | |
| reporting black crime(s) | |
| Republicans | |
| respect for authority | |
| rugged individualism | |
| same-race sex partners | |
| SAT tests | |
| saying it's OK to be white | |
| saying that Western civilization was built by white people | |
| saying you don't see skin color | |
| saying you're not a racist | |
| schedules | |
| science | |
| Scrabble words | |
| segregation | |
| self-reliance | |
| separate rooms for children | |
| silence | |
| slavery (from hundreds of years ago, not current-day slavery) | |
| sleep | |
| speaking English | |
| surfing | |
| Splash Mountain | |
| swastikas | https://news.avclub.com/fox-news-cant-even-bring-itself-to-say-swastikas-are-ra-1840458820 |
| talking during pauses in conversations | |
| Tea Party | |
| tennis | |
| tennis fans | |
| the Circle Game (whites only) | |
| The Dixie Chicks band name | |
| The Dukes of Hazard tv show | |
| The Little Mermaid | |
| the nuclear family | |
| the number 14 | |
| the number 88 | |
| the OK hand sign (whites only) | |
| the word blacklist | |
| the word ghetto | |
| the word nigga (whites only) | |
| the word niggardly (whites only) | |
| the word nigger (whites only) | |
| the word "prolife" | |
| the word "riot" | |
| thin women | |
| thinking there is a white race | |
| time as a commodity | |
| truth | |
| unequal outcomes | |
| valuing and rewarding autonomy | |
| valuing and rewarding independence | |
| voter ID | |
| wealth equals worth | |
| wearing a prom dress made of Asian-looking material | |
| Western philosophy | |
| Western traditions | |
| white congressional caucus | |
| white culture | |
| white in-group self-interests | |
| white pride | |
| white safe spaces | |
| white sheets | |
| white student unions | |
| white supremacy | |
| white TV channel | |
| whites-only dating sites | |
| whites-only meetings, groups, or associations | |
| white people supporting black activists | |
| wife as the homemaker | |
| winners and losers | |
| work before play | |
| written tradition | |
| your job is who you are |