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Darth Wedgius wrote: ↑Tue Nov 06, 2018 2:59 am
Did I miss the GOP announcements of Latinos or blacks being the enemy? And don't whites have as much shared history as anyone else? And what would whites be gatekeeping? Whiteness?
1. Given the recent political ads, I'd say that...yes they have.
Could you be a bit more specific? And you wouldn't be conflating illegal immigrants and Latinos (or blacks), I hope?
CharlesPhipps wrote: ↑Tue Nov 06, 2018 4:16 am
2. Yes, "whites" do. My ancestors were subject to genocide by the British via starvation. They were subject to eugenic sterilization. They were treated as subhuman until OOOOps, suddenly Irish are white now.
Fuck the concept of whites.
3. Yes, that is literally how racism works. "You are part of the club or not."
I admit that whites are a group without firm boundaries -- Kirk kissing Uhura raised more eyebrows than Ricky kissing Lucy, and I figure it's because because Cubans where white at the time. But you can find people who are kind-sorta-whatever-ethnicity.
It's also nonsense since it's a concept that didn't exist until people were trying to justify the slave trade in modern eras and came up with racial science. Culture is real. Ethno-racism is just a justification.
Darth Wedgius wrote: ↑Tue Nov 06, 2018 2:59 am
Did I miss the GOP announcements of Latinos or blacks being the enemy?
Yes. You did.
Fuzzy, if you re-read your response and think really hard about it, you can, I dearly hope, see how that was just a little bit completely and totally useless. Unless it made you feel better, which would surprise me.
Darth Wedgius wrote: ↑Tue Nov 06, 2018 4:11 pm
How do you feel about "caucasian?"
Armenians, Azeris, and Georgians are pretty OK. Shame they don't get along much.
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