Physics Study: Whiteboards Are ‘Racist’ Because They ‘Collaborate With White Organizational Culture’

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A recent physics study from Seattle Pacific University concluded that “whiteboards can be racist.

That’s right, even physics classes are engaged in woke debates about racism in 2022.

Observing Whiteness in Introductory Physics: A Case Study” was published last month in Physical Review Physics Education Research. The study observed students as they worked to solve a physics problem and analyzed how “whiteness” is present in academia.

The study found that whiteboards can have racist undertones and perpetuate whiteness.

Seattle Pacific University Research Associate Professor of Physics Amy Roberton served as lead author. W. Tali Hairston, director of community organizing, advocacy, and development at Seattle Presbytery, served as the co-author. Campus Reform report:

Hairston claimed that although whiteboards “are not inherently racist,” the common classroom object can perpetuate racism. 

“Whiteboards can be racist like how housing, employment, and the judicial systems were found to contain racist practices,” Hairston stated. 

According to the authors, the role of the whiteboard as being the center of attention in classroom learning contributes to its role in student discussion and attention.

“Our findings support other studies that have found the study of physics to include racism and sexism,” Hairston added.

“Whiteboards display written information for public consumption; they draw attention to themselves and in this case support the centering of an abstract representation and the person standing next to it, presenting,” the authors argue in the study. “They collaborate with white organizational culture, where ideas and experiences gain value (become more central) when written down.”

According to this argument, when students use a whiteboard to display work, they are drawing attention to themselves that may portray characteristics of “whiteness.”

University of Arkansas student Whitney Hines, who is currently enrolled in physics courses, told Campus Reform that “science is not meant to be subjective.” 

“I do not see how an objective topic can be seen as racist,” Hines added. 

Campus Reform contacted Seattle Pacific University and Roberton for comment. This article will be updated accordingly.

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17 Comments

  1. The problem is that blackboards are racist too because the chalk is white and it causes microaggressions as the white patriarchy draws all over the board.

  2. This is just as stupid as a while back when they were saying soap dispensers are racist because they require black folks to turn up the palms of their hands, which tend to be lighter than the backs of their hands. I’m just amazed at how stupid some Ph.D.’s can be. I read where some of them were saying that Jesus couldn’t have been born in Bethlehem, because He was known as “Jesus of Nazareth.” Good grief. He was born in Bethlehem, but He grew up in Nazareth!

    • Because his parents fled to bethlehem for Mary to give birth out of sight. And I think he grew up in Africa to avoid being butchered as a baby because of King herids edict to slaughter all new born Jewish baby boys that ran for 2 years was it, or all JEWISHV boys under 2 that were butchered By rule of roman law.

      • You’re right. It was to fulfill the prophecy of Micah 5:2 that He was born in Bethlehem, and because the Wise Men (the Magi) had seen His Star almost two years before they came, King Herod ordered the murder of all the baby boys in Bethlehem two years old and under, in order to destroy the Messiah. But Joseph and Mary and the baby Jesus had escaped to Egypt, where He stayed until Herod died, and then they returned by moving back to Nazareth.

      • You’re right. It was to fulfill the prophecy of Micah 5:2 that He was born in Bethlehem. Because the Wise Men (the Magi) had seen His Star almost two years before they came, King Herod the Great ordered the murder of all the baby boys in Bethlehem two years old and under, in order to destroy Someone he thought would be a rival to his reign. But Joseph and Mary and the Baby Jesus had escaped to Egypt, where He stayed until Herod died, and then they returned by moving back to Nazareth.

      • There was a Roman census that required everyone to be “registered” in their ancestral city. Since both Mary and Joseph were descendants of King David they had to go to Bethlehem for the registration. The registration coincided with Mary’s time to give birth. Read the first chapter of Luke to find out more, then keep reading coz it’s just a good read anyway.

  3. EVERYTHING IS RACIST, SUCH AS:
    4th of July fireworks, claims National Geographics,
    Apple Pie,
    Automatic Soap Dispensers,
    Bicycle Helmets,
    Biking,
    Black Holes out in the cosmos,
    Bridges, Says Pete Buttigieg
    Bumper Stickers (Thin Blue Line Police Sticker),
    Capitalism,
    Chamberlain Rock at The University of Wisconsin,
    Climate,
    Climate Change,
    Comedy,
    Declaration Of Independence being called Racist by NPR Radio,
    Docent’s ( A tour guide in a museum or cathedral)
    Dr. Seuss,
    Fish,
    Fishing,
    Freeways, Says Pete Buttigieg
    Grammar,
    Hiking,
    Ice cream Truck Jingles,
    Interstate Highways,
    Looting, (Yes, because only blacks and other minorities are looters, so now the word “looting” has to be deemed Racist. lmfao)
    Master Bedrooms,
    Math,
    Media,
    Menthol Cigarettes,
    Milk in Coffee,
    Picnics,
    Pig Farming,
    Reading,
    Roads, Says Pete Buttigieg,
    Running
    SAT Tests,
    Science,
    Single Family Homes,
    Thanksgiving,
    The TRUTH,
    “To Kill A Mockingbird”, the book, which is actually a story that teaches racism is BAD,
    Trees,
    Vaccines,
    Voter ID’s,
    Warbler birds,
    Waterways,
    Whiteboards,
    Words/Terms with BLACK in them ie: Black Monday, Blackballed, Black Sheep, Blackmail, etc,
    Yoga,
    Have ALL been called racist, by some poor dumb liberal AShole.

    AND Since Literally EVERYTHING is thought to be Racist, … Even the CDC has to get a piece of that.
    How far will it go ? The CDC now says Racism is seen as a “Serious Public Health Threat”. HOW, … WHY? Is It Contagious ??

    • You missed out Thomas the Tank Engine and how the naughty engines have black smoke and the good engines have white smoke.

      I kid you not. That was a (completely made up) thesis in the Guardian a few years back.

      • Realistically the fact is it is a white ruling class. Really. And yes they do insert white supremacist FUNDAMENTALISM very disingenuous ly into everything And actually although we had black boards in primary and secondary school we did have white boards in every university. And they are crappy and so avoided lectures and just got tapes cause I hated the glare off white boards. THEY ARE RACIST. That is true. And they are white Name 1 black Monarch Name 1 black Pope Name 1 black Jesuit General. And that’s the 3 top players on the planet apart from the secret societies.

        • Actually I have to confess I didn’t get tapes I hated uni so just got the text books the evening before the final exam and read that I didn’t go to uni really, too revolting Sickening places full of insults and rudeness. Like school All those hateful”nice “teachers Suckhiles.

        • In the UK there are more white homeless people than there are any other skin colour. They certainly didn’t get to university and, of course, having a white monarch means nothing to them.

      • I have only been making the list, as they come in, … for the last year and a half. lol

        I will search for Thomas and add it if I can find a source .

      • And now as of just recently, “Homeschooling” has made the list of all things Raycisss. As per MSNBC I believe.
        Oh, I also added Thomas the Tank Engine, thanks. lol

  4. We always had blackboards in our schools White boards were rarely ever used because they were crappy. They re full of it because like most “academics” rbeyr physically imbalanced and don’t have their mind body and soul integrated in a normal healthy way. And they’re so dumb they don’t even realize they’re targeted to become academics because they’re vulnerable as gullible misfits in the first place.
    “Nothing is what it seems” QE2

  5. How pathetic to try to fill another mans shoes and cry because you can never measure up – truly pathetic

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