The Roots of Liberty

The Roots of Liberty

Standards And Expectations

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Peter Venetoklis
Jul 20, 2025
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Did you know that expecting someone to be on time makes you a white supremacist?

No, this is not the psychopathic musing of some social media crackpot. It's a crackpot idea put forth by none other than Duke Medical School, back in 2021. It wasn't limited to timeliness, either:

In the workplace, white supremacy culture explicitly and implicitly privileges whiteness and discriminates against non-Western and non-white professionalism standards related to dress code, speech, work style, and timeliness. Some identifiable characteristics of this culture includes perfectionism, belief that there’s only one right way, power hoarding, individualism, sense of urgency and defensiveness.

Sophists and the unprincipled may grab one or more of these points and pretzel-logic their way to affirming the hairball in its entirety, but "baffle us with bullshit" aside, we all know this to be garbage.

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