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No Jew or Italian was ever non-white under US law. Racism and religious and ethnic prejudice was there in spades but > No Europeans were ever not considered wh
by barry-cotter 6y ago
No Jew or Italian was ever non-white under US law. Racism and religious and ethnic prejudice was there in spades but
> No Europeans were ever not considered white under US law.
If you have any citations for Jews being considered non-white as opposed to the bad kind of white like the Irish I’d be interested to see it.
- IfOnlyYouKnew 6y agoThat's what the linked wikipedia article says. ("for census purposes", admittedly. But that's one aspect of law)
- barry-cotter 6y agoThe string “for census purposes” does not occur in the linked Wikipedia article. The closest to anything saying Jews were regarded as non-white was that they were > further down the Caucasian pecking order, as Semites. The obvious interpretation of that is that they weren’t the good kind of white but bad white is still white. The Semitic kind of Caucasian.