• @orrk@lemmy.world
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    01 year ago

    oh ya, i forgot, for some reason we keep adding new groups to “white” to keep a majority in anything

    • @FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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      -51 year ago

      LMFAO even if you decide to arbitrarily exclude all other minorities from our total for no reason at all, Blacks still aren’t the majority.

      • @orrk@lemmy.world
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        11 year ago

        no, but for a long time Irish, Italians, Germans etc… weren’t white, until they needed to increase the size of “whites” because there weren’t enough WASPS to outnumber POC

          • @orrk@lemmy.world
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            11 year ago

            yup, “white” is a completely artificial concept that originated in America (as in the continent) as part of the slave trade justification.

            not even the Nazis had this “white” concept, in fact European racism is not along the lines of skin color

              • @givesomefucks@lemmy.worldM
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                11 year ago

                you’re having an aneurysm.

                That’s a borderline insult, and you reported them for misinformation when what they’re saying is how it really was.

                I think the confusion is they’re talking about what really happened, and you’re acting like they’re saying it was right.

                “White” was expanded in America to include Irish and Italians.

                As they lost the majority, they’d let in more groups to maintain the majority. No one is saying that made logical sense, and those lines are arbitrary.

                But that is what happened.

                https://www.theroot.com/when-the-irish-weren-t-white-1793358754

                  • @givesomefucks@lemmy.worldM
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                    21 year ago

                    I’ve reviewed the older messages and you’ve kept this going for over a week, never sourced anything, and have not been civil…

                    I’m not sure why you’d want a mod to look at that, but thanks for bringing it to my attention.