We have previously discussed how many professors seem to compete in finding new forms of racism in every facet of society and education. Astrophysics, math, runoffs, science, statistics, and meritocracy have all been denounced as racist. In this academic cottage industry, professors secure publications and speaking opportunities by identifying racism in the expressions, images, or entire fields. It was, therefore, only a matter of time before time itself was declared racist.
Zakia Essanhaji, a professor of “organizational ethnography” at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, is the latest to make the case against “white time.” Her recent paper titled “Academic time theft: stealing time, producing racialized inclusion in Dutch academia” builds on prior work condemning time as racist.
Rutgers Women’s and Gender Studies/Africana Studies Professor Brittney Cooper has also written about how time is racist. Mainstream media has positively cooed at the suggestion, including an interview with NPR. Cooper claimed that “white people own time” after framing the concept of time in “histories of European and Western thought.”
There is also apparently black time: “Time has a history, and so do black people. But we treat time as though it is timeless, as though it has always been this way, as though it doesn’t have a political history bound up with the plunder of indigenous lands, the genocide of indigenous people and the stealing of Africans from their homeland.”
Likewise, in “The Chronopolitics of Racial Time,” Jamaican academic Charles W. Mills described the “Euro-chronometer” as a Western-centric, linear timeline.
These works are often heavily laden with jargonistic narratives. In one study from Brazil, academics argue that “thinking of time outside and against the Euro-chronometer requires decolonial epistemologies that have the potential to disrupt racist chronologies.”
Professor Essanhaji continues this scholarship by “drawing on critical race theory and decolonial scholarship on chronopolitics and white time.” She applies with earlier work “to academic time theft to theorize how universities extract, fragment and defer the time of academics of colour through racialized institutional processes.”
“White time is not simply the time of the privileged, but the power to define temporality and progress itself. It is the colonization of time, known as the system of modernity/coloniality. As Vazquez […] argues, this system is maintained by erasing cyclical or relational understandings of time, ensuring that time is perceived as racing towards unattainable, more modern futures. In that sense, white time is both prescriptive and pre-emptive, foreclosing alternative futures and experiences of the past by delegitimizing other temporalities.”
Academics have long argued that non-white histories and figures are often “erased’ in scholarship. Such arguments have led to a move away from Western works or classics in favor of non-Western sources in higher education. However, the time scholarship suggests that the very construct of time has been shaped and furthers white domination and privilege.
In Professor Essanhaji’s work, this scholarship is used to challenge the demands placed on minority academics in publishing and other measures of academic achievement. Again, the work is heavily layered with jargonistic language. Here are her findings:
“The analysis identifies three mechanisms of academic time theft. First, prolonged uncertainty operates through racialized precariousness that keeps academics of colour in a condition of academic probation through insecure contracts and housing precarity. Second, ongoing disruption emerges through everyday racism that fragments attention, diverts emotional and intellectual labour, and interrupts academic continuity. Third, recursive evaluation operates through the continual resetting of inclusion and promotion criteria, producing perpetual states of “not yet” recognition and deferred academic futures. Together, these mechanisms sustain racialized temporal regimes in which academics of colour are positioned as perpetually “almost there” while white institutional time remains uninterrupted.”
These authors largely cite each other with little attention to countervailing viewpoints. It becomes a closed, self-perpetuating system as academics invite one another to speak at their universities and feed off one another. Few academics are willing to challenge such scholarship. Indeed, as we have discussed, departments have largely purged their ranks of conservative or contrarian voices.
As shown in this latest scholarship, the work in this area jettisons such “colonial” or “white” forms of analysis in favor of storytelling:
“I depart from a critical race perspective, employing counter-storytelling to construct (counter)narratives grounded in the lived experiences of people of colour. This method recognizes the connections between the historical impacts of colonialism and contemporary exclusions within organizations. By highlighting the experiences of people of colour navigating the university’s racism, I seek to provide rich accounts that reflect on how time is racialized and experienced in Dutch universities.”
There is a faux statistical framing based on “data” that is largely the subjective descriptions of minority academics:
“Initial open coding focused on participants’ descriptions of inequality across social, material and affective dimensions, including social, material and affective inequalities. While time was not predefined as an analytical category, it emerged inductively through participants’ recurring temporal framings of inequality.”
When one tries to drill down on the “data,” it appears entirely anecdotal and subjective, often turning on one or a handful of “narratives.” These stories are used to claim that academic measurements of success, driven by “white time,” are unfair to minority faculty: “these mechanisms position academics of colour perpetually as ‘almost there’ while their academic futures remain deferred.”
The thrust is that minority faculty should not be subject to traditional or accepted pathways for tenure or promotion:
“Academic time theft is not an incidental by-product of exclusion but a structural mechanism through which universities sustain white institutional time. It works by continuously delaying, interrupting and recalibrating what counts as academic legitimacy, ensuring that the labour of academics of colour remains productive for the institution while their progression is indefinitely postponed.
…To ensure that people of colour have academic futures, researchers and policymakers must break with the white temporality of academic work within which progress for some is enabled and for others is ongoingly deferred.”
Academia has already embraced narrative-driven scholarship in many departments as an alternative to traditional academic analysis. The Critical Legal Studies movement, for example, has challenged conventional scholarship as too restrictive and exclusionary. Few academics today dare to challenge such scholarship on the merits. To do so is to risk being labeled as reactionary or, even worse, racist.
This latest scholarship further challenges the time and structure for advancement for minority faculty as inherently racist. The question is whether the appointments and promotion process is at risk of losing objective and consistent measurements of scholarship.
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the New York Times best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”
“stealing time” appears to be what is racist, but Professor Turley has some rage to bait.
WHY are these 2 women, Zakia Essanhaji and Brittney Cooper trying to derail the system they so willingly became a part of, making good University Salaries, to basically say that the Universities are Racist because they are founded and run on Racist principles… is this their way of declaring that non-Whites don’t have to try to keep up with Whites…but they can excel in their own systems? IF SO, why don’t these 2 women and their cohorts go found their own ‘universities’ or whatever they want to call them as ‘universties’ is also a white structure…? WHY bother lecturing the rest of us who are happy with the trajectory of Western Civilization? and WHY does it always have to be about Race with these women………..? I could barely get thru their goobledeegook…
Watching 1 discipline after another get redefined as discriminatory reveals a deeper problem the activists aren’t critiquing ideas they’re dismantling the foundations of objective inquiry. Now even time has been targeted showing how detached this cottage industry is from reality
“Subject to the [full] jurisdiction thereof….”
– Allegiance
– Globality
– Domicile
– Exclusivity
No illegal alien is “subject to the full jurisdiction thereof….”
The jurisdiction, the full jurisdiction, and nothing but the jurisdiction, so help you God.
1. Territorial jurisdiction
2. Personal jurisdiction (jurisdiction over the person)
3. Political or sovereign jurisdiction (complete allegiance)
4. Subject-matter jurisdiction
They might do better with blaming their problems on dark matter which according to actual scientific studies exists despite our inability to directly observe it. According to current estimates about 60% of the matter in the universe is dark matter. It is only detectable by its effect on the visible massive objects it approaches which would seem to work better for this area of “scholarship.”
Would that include master-servant relationships?
Life is not about victimhood.
118. Our relationship with life seems to be in crisis today. Everything that appears as a “limit” — incapacity, illness, old age, suffering, vulnerability — tends to be seen primarily as a defect to be corrected, rather than as a reality through which our humanity matures and opens itself to relationship. And yet we must remember that humanity flourishes not despite limitations, but often through them. The light of faith offers a perspective on reality that helps us recognize what we call the “contingency” of the things of this world. While it is right to strive to alleviate the suffering that marks human life, it is also wise to acknowledge our fundamental finitude, knowing that “religious experience, and in particular Christian faith, propose that we live, without oversimplification, this ambivalence between human greatness and limitation, interpreting it in the light of our original and fundamental relationship with God.” [131]
119. It is precisely within our limitations that the following find a place: compassion, as well as a sincere concern for the needs of others; a generosity that can emerge even in the midst of darkness and failure; spiritual experience and the worship of God. We see this at many moments when our limits become tangible: when we face rejection, when we suffer the illness or loss of a loved one, when we encounter our own weakness or failure. Mysteriously, it is precisely in such moments that we can discover a new wisdom, tangibly experience the closeness of others and encounter the presence of the Lord.
Pope Leo XIV
Encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas”
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html
Relationships with others are key to life. Burning bridges not so much.
What normal person, living a busy life is going to try to decipher that gibberish, pontificated by a socialist pope who embraces Islam and welcomes the invaders to the Vatican?
“Is the Pope Catholic?” was the phrase used to shut off debate claiming previous assertions were obviously true. Now it is an open question open for debate.
How did God make so many mistakes, Estovir? The eyeball itself is malformed with a blindspot. It’s not my doing. Could it be God didn’t make us malformed creatures? Maybe a lesser god made us?
Even a person just beginning his education knows the doctrine of the Fall. Have you really never learned of it?
Explain the fall, omfk.
Just because you’re uneducated doesn’t mean it’s my job to educate you. If I didn’t know trigonometry, I wouldn’t pretend it’s your job to teach me that subject. There are plenty of resources on the Internet and elsewhere whereby you can obtain a remedial education.
So, birth defects are part of disobedience? Children born without arms and legs or brains? Genetic damage is part?
God being omnipotent, omniscient must have foreseen the snake? God wanted people with will to not fall and wise always? So fallen man is just a bad production of an infallible God?
That’s your argument?
Be resourceful. You can gain a remedial education if you want one.
Sorry, omfk, you’ll need to do better because there’s 9 billion defective people right now as empirical evidence of fallibility.
Keep trying, you’ll get there . The final end to the fallibility is to burn the evidence? You’ll need to do much better than personal insults.
Thanks anyway
PS. There is an actual answer.
**** from X
Be resourceful. You can gain a remedial education if you want one.
I try to elevate the discourse on this blog to an intellectual level, be it philosophical, theological or scientific. As we can all see our society shuns such intellectual discourse, opting instead for 5th grade level tantrums.
We should all try (those of us who haven’t yet left this blog) to engage each other with intellectual discourse to “feed each other” and elevate one another. Feeding the troll, who uses countless sockpuppet accounts and is driven by his personality disorder with an unquenchable thirst for attention and insults, leads to more noise, more distraction and gives regulars like me reason to leave. We’ve already lost some very god commenters. I barely post anymore for that very reason.
Stop feeding the trolls. Focus instead on elevating the discussion, for your own sake and for the sake of the good of others.
GIGO
“. . . doctrine of the Fall.”
So because two people thousands of years ago (allegedly) sinned, I am somehow responsible for those sins? And I have to pay for those sins?
That is generational, unearned guilt. And it is the basic premise of reparations for blacks.
Even more noxious about that doctrine is the inhuman notion that a desire for knowledge makes one sinful. That is a prescription for self-imposed ignorance.
Iranians, minorities, and women are petulant adolescents.
Professor Turley continues to call this gibberish “scholarship,” presumably because it emanates from “professors.” Instead, it is linguistic tripe produced through neologistic neuroses.
Wait! What the heck was that then, Einstein?
Wanting the entire system to adjust to each group’s preferred pace isn’t practical — it’s a utopian wish, not a workable model. Only university profs live in this 🤞world
I rather think that Turley had his tounge firmly in his cheek when he wrote that. Pretty obvious really.
What you think won’t matter after you have been reduced to ashes by a hydrogen bomb.
Leftism is a rebellion against reality. It believes everything is racist:
– Time is racist
– Math is racist
– Life is racist
Leftism wants to abolish all three. Leftists in academia are the natural conclusion to this type type of warped thinking. Their “scholarship” is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
And you are a fool and idiot.
Truth got you flustered?
Macbeth is bad luck. 😏
You forgot that milk is also racist. I don’t know about chocolate milk. Maybe it is white milk in black face and therefore racist too.
I guess snow is racist too. Same with apples.
Not sure. I suspect a pair of apples would be sexist.
Ha! Good one.
Hamlet? No, Macbeth?
Fabulous
Watching 1 discipline after another get redefined as discriminatory reveals a deeper problem the activists aren’t critiquing ideas they’re dismantling the foundations of objective inquiry. Now even time has been targeted showing how detached this cottage industry is from reality
I leave you with two names:
Thomas Sowell – arguably one of the greatest living academics of color.
Antonio Gramsci – the grandfather of cultural marxism, et al.
Did this Clown Tom plagiarize like his bro, Marty King?
CULTURAL HEGEMONY?
Wait! “Physical force and shaping cultural norms?” This is precisely the effect of militarily forced integration on a once-free people, for which we may thank the long-deceased JFK.
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Antonio Gramsci is best known for his theory of cultural hegemony. He argued that the ruling class maintains power in capitalist societies not just through physical force or coercion, but by shaping cultural norms, values, and institutions so that their dominance is accepted as natural by the oppressed.
White Time Impeding Trump
President Donald Trump’s efforts to alter how elections are run faced an avalanche of setbacks last week, as Republican senators rebuffed him and court after court hindered his administration’s plans to, as one judge put it, undercut “the sacred right to vote.”
The pushback has infuriated the president, who has ramped up his threats and demands as he openly grows increasingly worried about the investigations and impeachment that could come if Democrats win control of Congress.
But with the general elections just four months away, Trump is racing the clock as states make final preparations for early voting.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/28/with-time-running-out-trump-digs-changing-midterm-election-rules/
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Key Passage Above:
“But with the general elections just four months away, Trump is racing the clock..
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Cynics like Turley, who ridicule the concept of ‘White Time’, should realize that even the purest Whites, like Donald Trump, can become victims of White Time.
If we weren’t so obsessed with clocks and calendars, Trump would have more time to throw monkey wrenches at the midterm; sowing as much chaos as possible. But White Time could function as a firebreak, halting Trump’s arson-like efforts.
This should be a deep concern to beer-bellied MAGA types. White Time could mean free and fair elections that produce a Democratic takeover of Congress. If indeed that happens, Trump could be timed-out!
That is the most ridiculous thing, of the myriad ridiculous posts, that you have ever inflicted on us. Everyone who read this is now measurably dumber for having done so. I’m convinced now that you use AI, oh wait, no…no, you’re not smart enough to figure that out. Begone foul cretin. Go infest some other pages. There are only grown-ups here.
Michael – it’s definitely AI, posted by a bot programmed by the Chinese Communist Party. It always announces itself as such with this:
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The Chinese commies aren’t creative enough to program it to vary its format. But when you see that, you know it’s not worth spending your time on.
See that photo of Michael A Crognale? He was navy pilot whose second career is flying bear hunters to Alaska. So his credentials as a manly man are beyond any question. And when manly men like this are worried, it means it’s time to worry! Cause guys like Crognale ‘know’ a serious threat when they see one. So Crognale’s sounding the alarm! A timed-out Trump could leave pilots like Crognale lost in the clouds.
ANON’S brain on drugs!!
Dustoff again ….
MORON ANON AGAIN!! I’m not Dustoff
No one appreciates your limp-wristed narcissistic trolling.
You might consider returning to the sump from whence you emerged.
In order to understand Zakia Essanhaji’s argument you need to be well versed in the history of timekeeping, astronomy, seasonal climates and how they differ in different geographies at different times in history, and how timekeeping influences culture, and how culture influences timekeeping.
MAGAs: Just because you don’t understand something does not make it stupid or wrong.
Sally – just because a stupid left-wing no-brain academic spouts nonsensical nonsense, doesn’t make it smart or right. Hahahahah!!!
It’s 2026. Even the residents of the most backward ass slums in the world have cell phones…which most likely has a clock on the home screen. Time to stop making excuses for why people can’t look at a clock and be on time for something.
This concept is so far over your head it might as well be in orbit.
Clearly we’ve observed that bizarre perversions, freaks of nature, and various and sundry other forms of nutjobs exert much influence on society.
Thank you so much, hon.
Ya know, those Greeks were really smart people; they created democracy, and it never crossed their minds to allow women et al. to vote.
Repeal affirmative action and the 19th PMSNBC NOW in one fell swoop.
That’s the ticket.
MASA – MAKE AMERICA SANE AGAIN
P.S. Women are for making babies. Go have a few. The American fertility rate is in a “death spiral.”
“In order to understand Zakia Essanhaji’s argument you need to be” as phony and as delusional as she is.
Her *conclusion* is clear: time is racist. Her *argument* is impenetrable gibberish.
It occurred to me while reading this piece that we human beings know, with absolute certainty, that we will die
Ask a person how long they have left, do whites answer differently than non whites?
Actuaries have an answer for that. Ask them.
As I was growing up, I leaned that to succeed you needed a work ethic, respect for others and discipline (which is a part of having a work ethic). Those who do not respect timeliness have none of these qualities and ridicule those who have worked to develop these traits.
“These works are often heavily laden with jargonistic narratives.” (JT)
For those curious about the genealogy:
The romp to academic gibberish, in numerous subjects, began some 50 years ago with postmodernism and deconstruction — two deeply irrational movements that completely untethered words from meaning, from objects, definitions, even from the text in which they appear. The two primary villains are Derrida and Foucault.
Here is Foucault admitting that the obscurity is intentional:
“You gotta have ten percent incomprehensible, otherwise people won’t think it’s deep–they won’t think you’re a profound thinker.”
The only thing that has changed in 50 years is the academic conviction that if 10% is profound, then 50% must be more profound.
Time is a biblical idea and that’s why being on time is important. Most pagan nations reject this and why nothing gets done there.
A couple of thoughts. It was between the 13th and 15th centuries in Europe that the town clock became prevalent. This technical innovation introduced regularity in the culture that was unique. In fact when the Europeans went to China and Japan bearing gifts including clocks, the elites receiving those gifts thought it more of a curiosity but not useful. This invention that promoted a culture with sense of timeliness (as well as enabling worldwide navigation) was a key to the rise of western civilization.
When as a student, I would attend local chamber music concerts. One of the up and coming young professors in my college also attended. What impressed me was his work ethic. He always sat down with a whole stack of messy papers to either review or grade before the concert and during the intermissions. This was my window into what it took to succeed in academia. He became a full professor, starting from Assistant when I first knew him, in 9 years and has accumulated over 20,000 citations of his hundreds of publications. This guy was a real force in his field – the type we should have in our academic institutions.
It is not racist to note that timeliness and a strong work ethic were cultivated in western civilization because these can be, and in many cases have been, adopted by other countries outside the traditions of western culture such as Japan and South Korea.
I’ll be there at two and a half moons give or take a few sunsets when the snow is adrift.
I am beginning to enjoy the insanity.
Now the word CHICAGO is racist.
I suppose watermelon and tufts of cotton ball decorations are racist too.
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rusty-weiss/2012/08/30/chris-matthews-and-msnbc-now-claim-word-chicago-racist
Maybe it would be easier to list things that are not racist. Would be a pretty short list these days. I am struggling to think of something that isn’t racist. No longer really care. We can agree for you to call me racist and I call you as****e. We are rapidly losing common ground in this society.
The gulf is between empirical and emotional evidence, perhaps.
The presumption that all diversity is good is false.point to something in the constitution that is anti segregation?
Despite all the ranting many blacks demand segregation…separate graduations, dorms, grading systems, proms, etc, etc
You’ve made my point. Before planes, ships , travel in general people OBVIOUSLY segregated by continent. Where there was overlap, wars.
It’s rooted in reproduction. More space more resources…Africans actually long to be in Africa. Instead, they’ve decided to make North America Africa 2?
Ms Zakia is just doing her job as requested by the government. I agree it lacks scholarship. There just isn’t any great literature of Morocco I guess..
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Must be nice to be so privileged and bored you have time to come up with this bullsh**. Yawn. 🥱🥱 I’ve noticed the number of SAT words a person uses is inversely proportional to their IQ.
There is a requirement in academia to publish. When all the easy/good ideas are taken, folks come up with such rubbish as this. John C. Tate
“Publish or perish.”
Except that the SAT has been abandoned as well.