• @MrVilliam@lemm.ee
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      91 day ago

      If Caucasians count as white, then Iranians are white. A lot of Iranians are also religious and right wing too. The average Republican and the average Iranian would agree with each other on nearly everything if they could somehow have a conversation without divulging their country, clothes, and specific God.

      • @Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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        141 day ago

        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.

        • @wpb@lemmy.world
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          61 day ago

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

        • @MrVilliam@lemm.ee
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          31 day ago

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

          • Chloé 🥕
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            522 hours 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@sh.itjust.works
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            20 hours ago

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

          • @Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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            424 hours 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.