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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You got it the wrong way around. Race is made up to justify racism.

Italians (and the Irish, too, I think) once didn't count as white, for crying out loud.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Germans too. Benjamin Franklin called them swarthy. "White" has always been a social construct to delineate an ingroup.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Okay, but if literal Caucasians from Caucasia don't count as white, then wtf does white even mean.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

then wtf does white even mean

nothing, that’s the whole point of whiteness

its a made up in-group created to justify and facilitate european colonialism

[–] mobotsar 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's anyone who can go out wearing cargo shorts, tall socks, and trainers without being immediately made fun of.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

"White" is whatever the racists want to establish as the civilized norm which needs to defend itself against the non-white barbarians.

Arguing with "caucasians are from Caucasia" is stooping to the racist's level of discourse. You shouldn't argue with Nazis about the nature of "Aryans", either.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

White is Israel and US Republican elites.