Social Justice™ Now Claims Waking Up Early Is White Supremacy
By Ben Bartee
What even is satire anymore? At some point, reality will become so absurd that it will render satire an anachronistic relic of the before-times, when some semblance of societal sanity made satire possible.
We may have already crossed that Rubicon.
Exhibit A is the argument that waking up early is actually White Supremacy™.
Personally, I don’t spend much time on Medium these days since the platform kicked me off for either “COVID misinformation” or “transphobia” (I honestly don’t remember which anymore, but I got warnings for both of those things before they finally suspended my account permanently). However, this little ditty came my way recently from Anthony Bernardi, who “writes about social justice and cooking.”
Via Medium:
The notion of waking up early and starting your day with the rising sun is often associated with productivity, success, and a strong work ethic. However, this seemingly innocuous concept is not without its historical and cultural implications. In this article, we will explore the origins of the early-rising narrative and how it is rooted in white supremacy, contributing to the perpetuation of racial inequalities.
We’re already off to a losing start. I have lived in numerous countries throughout the world, each with its own distinctive culture and most of them non-white. In some cases, like Thailand, these are places that were never touched by European colonization.
One of my ex-girlfriends’ parents, quasi-farmers in the Central Thailand province of Phitsanulok, woke up at 4 a.m. every morning to tend to their greenhouse garden, cook mango sticky rice for sale at the local market, work on wood sculptures of the king, and other activities.