Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸I have this 3-hour walking through the streets of Hanoi video on in the background, admiring the variety, color, art, and embedding of nature all around, thinking about how the construct of whiteness keeps us from having fun, human cities.
Whiteness is about seeming as inoffensive as possible. Or said better, about being as inoffensive to *other white people* as possible. While doing much worse than offense in the harms required to enforce such blandness.
Paint the walls beige so it won’t lower your house’s resale value (inoffensive), but withhold your tip to punish your server for slow service (an aggressive act).
Worse if you rent. Good luck painting any color but beige, you’re not getting your deposit back. Enforcement in this case is itself an act of offense, we must protect lest anyone’s eyes be nonconsensually offended with a more interesting color.