Windows Whiteness and Oppression

 Windows is like Whiteness:

Sense graduating from college I've avoided working in a Windows environment. By that i mean having to use Windows every day just to do whatever my job is. Seldom have i achieved it for whatever my employment has been. I've worked for a business where all the other employees had a Mac ... Except for the finance department. I eventually had to walk them through some element of our security protocols and i pulled from my undergrad experience of working with students, walking them through getting their Windows machine to comply with our network standards to be allowed internet access. Through our my career I've had to know Windows wether I wanted to or not. The thing is, Windows is the default to our computing world, so is Whiteness. 

Idiosyncratic, antiquated and the default:

 Have you looked at the traffic on Windows networks? Winbind traffic is abundant on any network with windows machines on it. It's chatty and only useful if the network uses active directory domain authentication. This is like understanding references to Friends or The Office. Then there There's business language. "What's the ask here" I was asked once in a critique of my email. This grammatical construction being so foreign and contrived I had to ask for a translation. 

 There are many cultural touch points in the American experience that are profoundly white. Cheeses, Rock and Roll, but primarily the family unit. When we start using terms like Traditional Masculinity we get into a very narrow form of Whiteness. The form constructed on TV and advertisements. White picket fences and ranch houses. I say narrow because even they can't always conform to it. These things are expensive. They became symbols of success and stability and such things have become more out of reach as inequity has become more noticeable. There are now entire media companies trying to preserve its dominance and an entire political party that has codified it's primacy. 

Business attire business speak, and where it comes from:

Sense highschool I was advised to where a suit and tie to an interview. The dress code was, except for a rare occurrence, a polo and kakies. The time I wasn't mandated to that attire was when i worked at a startup. Tee-shirts and hoodies get uniform sometimes but that's a reflection what the wearers have in common not what they're being mandated to wear. Even in Silicon Valley where they rejected the banker's outfit they adopted the Patagonia vest. Felice with the company logo. A uniform nonetheless. These are worn to show loyalty to the company not to express anything about themselves.