40 Ways White People Say ‘White People’ Without Actually Saying ‘White People’ came up on my Facebook feed. I don’t think people of color need any guidance on when “white people” is being said without saying “white people.” They have a lifetime of experience detecting it.
On the other hand, “white people” have a lifetime of eliding over when someone says “white people” without using those precise terms.
What follows is a suggestion of a tool that may assist white readers in detecting when “white people” is being said, but not in explicit terms.
Download the sed script, reading-while-white.txt and Remarks by President Trump at Protecting American Workers Roundtable (save as HTML page) to test the script.
Remember to chmod on the sed script, then:
reading-while-white.sed remarks-president-trump-protecting-american-workers-roundtable > reading.while.white.roundtable.html
The top of the document should read:
The replacement text will appear as:
and,
I use “white people” to replace all implied uses of white people and preserve the text as written in the following parentheses.
Hard coded for HTML format of White House pages but just reform the <h1> line to apply to other sites.
Places to apply Reading While White:
Save your results! Share them with your friends!
Educate white readers about implied “white people!”
I’m looking for an easier way to share such transformations in a browser.
Do you know of a browser project that does NOT enforce a stylesheet and file having to originate from the same source? That would make a great viewer for such transformations. (Prohibited in most browsers as a “security” issue. Read “content provider in control” for “security” and you come closer to the mark.)