“Niceness as Whiteness”: Professors Denounce Niceness as White Privilege

There is an academic cottage industry in finding new forms of racism in society. Astrophysics, math, runoffs, science, statistics, meritocracy, and even time itself have been tagged. Now, researchers have found another undiscovered continent of white privilege: niceness...…

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) August 11, 2026