You’re telling me that guy at the very back of the truck bed isn’t white? I have a darker tan than that guy and I’m white as Wonderbread (German/Irish/Danish heritage).
I’ve met leather skinned Floridian Caucasians who were darker than most of these people.
When I was growing up, a gay kid in a rural setting living in near-poverty and surrounded by constant and extreme homophobic rhetoric, there basically was no open or obvious (to me) gay representation in my little slice of the world. I literally spent ages 10 - 17 thinking I was some alien creature, the one and only. While I knew other gay men existed somewhere out there, it was clear to me that they all lived in giant cities, went around wearing dresses, tried to kidnap little kids to turn them gay, nagged straight men and children for sex, and spread HIV/AIDS.
Truly sorry for the underrepresented heterosexual, Caucasian, Christian, English-only speaking children out there in the USA and their parents and really everybody else going through this affront to their existence. I totally and completely understand how you feel.
Any time you see this culture war nonsense, just remember, this is what Donald wants you talking about instead of the Epstein Files.
Native American here: fuck you Morgan.
I don’t know, this guy looks pretty white…
He’s not leaving much room for Jesus… and with an adult woman. A conservative’s worst nightmare.
Jesus does it from behind.
Brings a whole new meaning to “Christ on a cracker “
i dunno, jesus seemed like a bottom to me. he did tell satan to get behind him.
morgan, you dumb fuck, keep your eye on the ball (epstein files)
Such nonsense. I’m sure Bad Bunny searched long and hard to find as many white people capable of dancing as he could. It’s not his fault we suck at it.
Aren’t most of those people white?
The US has a very weird take on race.
Yes, but I imagine the original poster was thinking Aryan white.
The original poster still thinks “Italians aren’t white”
Lol racists are so stupid, where do they draw the line
Wherever it’s convenient at the time
Oh but they meant pale white northern european locked inside without sun the whole day not slightly tan white people
Americans apparently have a very learned eye to distinguish who’s white or not.
Had a bizarre interaction in Texas once where I couldn’t tell an entire staff was Mexican? My bad. Hijinx ensued. Owner was on the hook for my meal/drinks.
I’m Canadian.
I was visiting a friend in Texas in 2015. They were out for the day so I was just kinda wandering around in the afternoon.
Found myself belly up to a bar, chit chatting with the bartenders. Shooting the shit, having a great time. Trump came on the TV and I commented what a knob he was.
The bartender said something somber, like “Yeah if he wins, we all are gonna have to go home”
I sincerely didn’t understand why. I was like “What… he’s going to close the bars??” The guy was like “No… we will have to go home”
Again, I was like “what the fuck are you talking about”
Buddy looks at me like I’m from outer space. I look at him the same way.
He just slowly says “We’re… all… Mexican”. The whole body of staff is gravitating towards the unfolding scene.
“How the hell was I supposed to know that?” I asked. He was like “Isn’t it obvious?”. No? Like they had dark hair. Is everyone with dark hair Mexican?
He was like “did you walk by any construction sites today?”. Yes, I had. “Think back, did the foreman look different than everyone else?”. Now that is really thought back… yeah. He was like, ginger.
At this point, like 10 of the staff are watching me come to the realization, in real time, that I’ve been surrounded by Mexicans like the whole day and no part of my brain registered it.
I don’t even really remember exactly what I said next… but it would have been along the lines of “I’m from Canada. My brain isn’t even wired to distinguish a Mexican from anyone else.” I’m really confused. I’m basically apologizing.
At that point they just burst out laughing. Basically surrounded at this point. They poured me a shot. Then another. They told me my bill was covered. We kept shooting the shit for a few more hours. They kept teasing me for not being able to recognize a Mexican. A relatively famous band was playing there later that night, and they snuck me back to listen to them warming up.
To this day, I still don’t really understand how Americans can distinguish Mexicans. It must be a learned “skill”. It was pretty eye opening talking to them… the fatigue of being treated as “lesser”… even “distinct”. We had a good time.
Story time?
@Windex007@lemmy.world Seconded, we need stories.
Ah I posted it but under my own comment like an idiot.
You’re not an idiot and that story is hilarious. Thanks for sharing it!
If it makes you feel any better, not all Latinos are Mexican, and even Mexicans can’t accurately recognize other Mexicans. I’m descended from Sicilians, so I’m seasonally dark and my dad was dark AF*. When we lived in California, we were regularly spoken to in Spanish by Mexicans and other Latinos who were surprised that we didn’t speak Spanish and in fact were the whitest dark people they had ever met.
*Fun Fact: my paternal grandfather was an asshole and as racist as he was dark (very). Jokes on him - I got my whole genome sequenced and we have a ton of gene variations strongly correlated with African populations. I’m around 25% African by gene frequency distribution, about 10% North and about 15% sub-Saharan African. I’m at least 15% “black”. Hah! Fuck you, Grandpa!
It’s so arbitrary. I’m “white” and I’m darker than most of the people there by early June. It’d be year round if not for living so far north.
There are at least 3 white people here. This fuckhead just doesn’t see it because they’re dressed differently then they think white people dress.
I was gonna say some of these people look pretty white to me. But then we’re getting into the arbitrary question of who counts as white which is probably way beyond her understanding.
Part of being “white” is getting to decide who is “white.” This is only possible because “white” is a completely made up category. We shouldn’t even engage with the term.
Old English saying “The wogs begin at Calais.”
Meaning if you aren’t English you really aren’t White.
Fair point but it’s so deeply rooted. Don’t we have to engage with it to some extent in order to eliminate it?
I’ll just let my comment above stand as an example of how I think it should be engaged with. You can recognize that it’s a fantasy people have without participating in the fantasy.
Now playing NOFX - Don’t Call Me White
It’s entirely in the eye of the beholder, as white is an ephemeral western social in-group and not an ethnicity. If you think you see white people in this photo, then you do.
To that person, “there are at least 3 people who are clearly at leat white passing”
They’re not white, they’re Irish.
Also, there were black people, but I’m sure this ethnocentric asshole didn’t see them either.
In the future everyone will be brown. And that’s a good thing since the radiation from the ozone being damaged is going to be pretty bad for the pales.
I legit get a sunburn on my face from walking outside in regular sun for a half hour.
It’s serious.
We aren’t designed for current and certainly not the future radiation exposure.
The damage to the ozone layer is reducing and has been for decades.
It’s all good Morgan, you still have your white cultural icons. Epstein even spoke English!
Anglo-Saxons quite literally erased the locals when they came to America, this is just a musical performance with some of their descendants. 🙄
I’m telling you, if they had anything more than their physical features as common ground, anything with depth as a shared ideology, and even the most rudimentary of moral frameworks, they wouldn’t be this way.
If you listen to her, you’d think Bad Bunny was giving out smallpox blankets to all the white people at the Super Bowl.
Ooh, that would work really well nowadays with all the antivaxxers! New idea, pass out blankets at Trump rallies!
Not smallpox please, a lot of innocent people aren’t vaccinated against it since it was eradicated. I am because I’m an old fart, but I don’t want MAGA people my age and above being the ones NOT affected. Besides you’d have to break into the CDC, or just convince Kennedy it’d be good for folks’immune systems or something.
Measles is already working on the problem all by itself.
It doesn’t have to be smallpox. Measles would be fine!
Nobody else gets to have some protagonism, that’s white genocide!
Unfortunately, gotta hard disagree here. The big problem is that this particular in-group does have a shared ideology and moral framework. The problem is that it’s Nazi ideology.
I don’t think there’s anything of substance there besides fear, confusion and anger, and none of these things require words or thoughts. I mean, let’s be real, none of these folks have read Mein Kampf… these people don’t read, lol. The one thing I’d say they have in common is that they have defaulted into the bestial “might makes right”/law of the jungle stance, which is not an ideology but the absence of one that contains/redirects your urges.
So that means erasing Anglo-Saxon descendents today?
“That” means we should enact an Anglo-Saxon genocide? No, not at all, lol (the fuck?).
It seems you’ve confused yourself.
Hopefully.
We are all uncooked red meat.
I was going to be cute and say “my meat is purple” because that’s my favorite color… but it sounds really wrong.
She hasn’t shut the fuck up yet because her user hasn’t run out of response tokens.
