Citations:whitesplaining

English citations of whitesplaining

Noun: "the act of a Caucasian person condescendingly explaining racism and/or sociopolitical issues related to race to a non-Caucasian audience"

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• 2010 November 15, Aqua, “Re: Mansplain (was Re: advice: those vampire books?)”, in alt.polyamory‎^[1] (Usenet):

  I don't have any great ideas myself, but I could use it (not least because I also find myself dealing with the same issue with the parallel "whitesplaining", of both the white-to-PoC, and white-addressing-white-audience kinds).

• 2014 January 31, Michael Arceneaux, “GOP Legislator: I’m No Racist, My Black Friends Taught Me To BBQ”, in Michigan Chronicle‎^[2]:

  By that same token, don’t enter a conversation with your whitesplaining that’s rooted in half-a*sed stereotypes you hold base^[sic] on some old Black TV sitcoms and the two Black cousins by marriage you have.

• 2014 February 27, Alan Bedenko, “Quinn to School Board?”, in Artvoice‎^[3]:

  Here’s a secret: as bad and dysfunctional as Carl Paladino and Larry Quinn think the Buffalo School Board is, arrogant mansplaining / whitesplaining only makes the whole thing a bigger circus.

• 2014 March 24, Ian Reifowitz, “Did Rand Paul Just Accuse Barack Obama of Being 'Not Black Enough?'”, in The Huffington Post‎^[4]:

  However, whitesplaining is supposed to be used to call out a white person for telling black people how they should feel or act, or how they should see a certain situation (i.e., "is it racist or not"), or condescendingly lecturing black people about black life in America. Rand Paul has here engaged in a textbook definition of whitesplaining.

• 2015, Matt Prigge, "Kevin Costner drinks his way through messy race film 'Black or White'", Metro (New York), 30 January 2015 - 1 February 2015, page 12:

  This could have been insufferable whitesplaining, especially considering it's by writer-director Mike Binder, whose "The Mind of the Marrying Man" is one of the whitest things to ever play TV.

• 2015, Tucker Cholvin & Thomas Christiansen, "A Dangerous Era of Groupthink", The Hoya (Georgetown University), Volume 96, Number 38, 3 March 2015, page A3:

  This new strand of Twitter-driven progressivism manifests itself in many things, but particularly alarming is whitesplaining, where wealthy white people taken upon themselves the cross of pointing out instances of oppression on behalf of the actually oppressed.