• boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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    26 days ago

    Anything mediterranean isn’t white in traditional American Racism™. In fact, even Irish people weren’t considered completely white for the longest time.

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      26 days ago

      Anything mediterranean isn’t white in traditional American Racism™.

      That’s so utterly bizarre that I don’t know how to deal with it, especially the implication that South America then never was colonized by white people.

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        26 days ago

        The thing about the whole “us vs them” mentality is that you can always go more specific about who “us” is until you’ve got like 5 superior human beings and everyone else is subhuman.

        It never made sense and never will. That’s racism for you.