National Post: The Global Affairs materials cite heavily from Dismantling Racism , a widely used workbook that was one of the earlier proponents of critical race theory. “Racism is ordinary, the ‘normal’ way that society does business,” reads Dismantling Racism, adding that “every institution in this country was and is used to prove that race exists and to promote the idea that the white race is at the top of the racial hierarchy and all other races are below, with the Black race on the bottom.”
A chart outlining examples of “white supremacy culture” includes the principles of “objectivity,” “individualism” and “worship of the written word.” The materials also brand the concept of “pulling oneself up by one’s bootstraps” as an example of “covert white supremacy.” The term “covert white supremacy,” which Global Affairs adopts from the Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence, is defined as any white supremacy that is “socially acceptable.”
This view has manifested itself in Canadian public life most notably in October, when B.C. Premier John Horgan was pilloried for saying in an election debate that he “does not see colour.” In an apology the next day, Horgan said “I’m sorry. I’ll never fully understand, as a white person, the lived reality of systemic racism.” Indeed, the Global Affairs materials cite the phrases “but we’re all just one human family” and claiming to be “colourblind” as additional markers of “covert white supremacy.”
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