US internet culture privileges whiteness rooted in white supremacy

Evidence

Numerous media scholars have examined those struggling in the contemporary influencer industries, often foregrounding dimensions of gender, race, and class. Cultural production, like culture in general, is inherently structured by these categories. American culture, rooted in white supremacy, privileges whiteness, and internet culture in the United States is no exception. If we want to understand the oppressive qualities of contemporary digital culture, then we must examine whiteness, wealth, and other qualities privileged as natural, as normal, as desirable today. — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 34

Categorization

• XREF: Could connect to reading about stratification and who counts as the Corpocene subject, relevant to the reader’s creator case study and labor theory. — connects to: White supremacy is a society-wide valuing system, not merely extremist violence. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 55