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Could you expand a bit maybe? I genuinely dont understand the thought process behind this.

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Pretty much every European nationality has its own self centered definition of “white”.

Really, you’re just creating arguments over which of these absurd definitions is the real one.

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How, I can’t even comprehend how someone could be this hateful/stupid.

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Humans have been prejudiced against eachother for as long as there’ve been humans, but it’s always been along much smaller ethnic groups than what we’re used to today. The modern idea of grouping loads of ethnicities into races (seven races for seven continents) traces back to the 1600s, a mix of the Spanish being very concerned about who did and did not have Moorish heritage, and everyone involved in the Atlantic slave trade needing a justification for their atrocities. The justification for the groupings themselves changed over time too, for example climate-based race (people from hot climates are strong but idle and stupid and need people from cool climates to guide them) being a popular one, until with the discovery of genetics it settled on a bogus version of that, which it remains until today.

These groupings are created to justify systems of exploitation, so they’re pretty flexible. When the conditions that say who can be exploited change, so do the races. So, in the US, Irish and Italians were considered non-white (though the Irish are pale-skinned enough that they’d be called out separately; “No N*****s or Irish” signs), Slavs were considered Asian until the 1920s, and (light-skinned) Arabs were considered white until the 2000s, then lost their white status. I thought northern Asians were going to be next to gain whiteness, but lately the chuds I keep tabs on are trying to push for Mexicans getting it (not that they phrase it in these terms).

So what HKBFG is doing is trying to reopen old splits in who was considered white.

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I can’t even imagine the amount of brain worms you’d need to belive this sort of thing.

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You probably believe it to some extent!

The first thing we notice when we describe a person is their race. It might be tempting to justify that with skin color being so visible (skin does cover the whole body), but “Black” and “Indian” are still separate words. These socially constructed groupings of ethnicities run very deep.

As the saying goes, “I’m not racist, but I am the product of a racist society.”

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