Created on November 13, 2024 Last updated on October 17, 2025

A list of characteristics typical for white supremacist environments

This list is taken from the “Energy Equity Report 2022” which quoted it from Tema Okun and Kenneth Jones, Dismantling Racism Workbook, 2001. Reference this PDF from the Minnesota Historical Society for a short explanation of every point below.

An Image reading a title "Characteristics of White Supremacist Environmenments: 1. Perfectionism 2. Sense of Urgency 3. Defensiveness 4. Quantity over Quality 5. Worship of the Written Word 6. Only One Right Way 7. Paternalism 8. Either/Or Thinking 9. Power Hoarding 10. Fear of Open Conflict 11. Individualism 12. I'm the Only One 13. Progress is Bigger, More 14. Objectivity 15. Right to Comfort

I like to think back to my school time

Or I like to ask friends, how many of these points were true for your educational environments? How deeply are white supremacist values conditioned into our ways of doing & being in this world, considering that most of us went to school for 12-18 years of our life before we were granted the liberty to decide how we want learn & walk through this world?

Here's the list written out digitally.

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A list of characteristics typical for white supremacist environments

I like to think back to my school time

Here's the list written out digitally.

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