Theres enough racist people that hes a candidate

Thats it, lets stop putting our heads in the sand with ‘economic anxiety’

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Yes, I am white but I am darker than several of my latinX friends. I still get white privilege they do not.

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Sure, it’s possible depending on the specific features and contexts which are so detailed that I won’t even go into them. As well as family connections, accents, etc.

But if your Latinx friend is blue eyed and pale, and you’re a very swarthy curly haired dark eyed “white” Sicilian, the friend can benefit from “white-passing privilege” relative to your white ass

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Is it because of thr fair complexion? Or is it because of the resources and the legacy of being decident from the colonizer classes that provides that privilege?

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both. Some people (of all races) would treat him better bc they mistake him for white, and everything nice and good they know is white, bc whites have had all the money/land since 1492

Some white people would treat him better not only because of the above implicit bias association, but consciously and explicitly because he’s “one of their own”, and this would be “evil” racism

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