• @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.