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Whiteness won't help here, this dude attacked the owner class. He's going to be smeared then locked up for the rest of his life.
What remains to be seen now is whether he gets better medical care in prison than he did via publicly available insurance.
The answer to medical debt or trying to survive without health care .... murder a health insurance CEO, get thrown in jail and receive medical care while incarcerated.
CEOs hate this one trick
Well, he wasn't shot, choked to death, or mangled in the back of a police van at the time of arrest, so that's already a win for him.
Or locked up in the back and placed on train tracks...
Took me a second to puzzle this out...
Just in case any of my fellow Europeans need an extra nudge in the right direction, this is relating to the guy who has been arrested for shooting the healthcare CEO, and nothing to do with people in Italy.
You mean the innocent man they arrested on suspicion of shooting the healthcare CEO
You mean the good samaritan who shot the CEO.
Thanks. I was really wondering what this was about.
It is and always has been a class war. The owners love us squabbling over skin color.
Am from Italy, italians are the whitest of the whites. Rome, the church, the basis of modern Patriarchy and white supremacy was born and raised here folks
I'm from Italy as well. I always like to remember a quote from Charles Mingus, who at some point in his career had an entire black band with the exception of his sax player, Charlie Mariano. When asked about it, he answered something along of the lines of "He's not white, he's Italian."
Maybe the social meaning of ethnicity is really relative to the racist empires they're situated in and not on some sort of inherent value
yea, its because the Italians (and Irish, Chinese, etc as well) generally came to America later and were poorer than the British/French/Germans etc were, so they were often discriminated against (plus the mafia thing, but that also generally comes from being poorer)
I'm latino and I still do not understand how the fuck you man manage to live always looking at whiteness. Such an hysteria with the skin color.
Latinos also act prejudiced to those darker than them
Yep, Jamaican here. Everyone is black, but there's a huge problem with "bleaching" where people are whitening their skin color, as they perceive it to be of higher status.
I think skin bleaching might be a rampant issue. iirc Africans and Asians also do it. Everyone seems to want lighter skin. Wonder if it's due to Western influence.
This took me too long to understand. Basically saying how Luigi is treated will determine if Italians are considered white. If he is treated with respect and not beaten while in custody Italians are confirmed as white people.
Thank you. I'm slow.
Well I actually laughed aloud at this on the train. I'm pretty much generic white looking, but have wondered if my resume ever got treated differently for the very Italian last name.
I have a very Italian full name and definitely got treated differently when I was younger. Growing up in a rural area, many of my teachers would ask me to translate Spanish for them. Oh boy.
they're trying to make him sound insane by referring to his manifesto with vague and scary language so I think we got our answer
It's so ridiculous, too. As far as I can tell, he was arrested, because his clothes looked superficially similar to the person who shot the CEO, but if you spend five seconds comparing the security camera images, it's pretty obvious that none of the clothing items actually match. If they hole him up based on this evidence, that's embarrassing.
Not even just the clothing. I mean, you can change clothes, and lighting can affect colors pretty wildly (see: white/gold or blue/black dress). I don't think anyone can change the shape of their face, grow a unibrow, and get a darker complexion in the span of 3 days, though.
im italian and dont consider myself white
Do you consider yourself a POC?
i dont know? i mean my skin isn't white. i have a darker shade complexion than a "white" person. somewhat similar to someone from a med/middle eastern country.
he's not just Italian, he's so Italian that he was named the way jowling kowling rowling would name a token Italian character in harry potter
I'm not white or Italian, I just like to complain on YouTube videos where a non Italian makes inauthentic Italian food.
Makes me feel like a real ally who is standing up for something.
I like to complain on YouTube videos where an Italian makes food with tomatoes and calls it authentic Italian food because tomatoes are Mexican. Get on my level.
So you heard it here, folks. Pizza is not Italian.
I mean, he is on the sworthy side.
Sexiness gets its own weighted score