Again, Batchelor dives into the tyranny of whiteness in which he considers color as alien and dangerous as it is usually belong to something "other", which is typically “feminine, the oriental, the primitive, the infantile, the vulgar, the queer or the pathological" (23). Because of this, we see color as trivial rather than essential as it can take on qualities of charming or quirky, but not beautiful. Color is "perceived merely as a secondary quality of experience, and thus unworthy of serious consideration" (23). By purging color into something dangerous or trivial, it further enhances whites tyrannical power.
