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Yeah, what motivation would there be to pretend to be Italian? It's not like one crazy person is going to discredit Italy or Italians, and the poster is not go

• ruined 5y ago
  anti-Italian racism strikes again. this is just like when the communists tore down those statues of the first american, Columbus, to erase our founding fathers from history
  • C19is20 5y ago
    "Anti-italian" is not racism.
    • drdeca 5y ago
      Only because in the current culture “Italian” isn’t generally considered to be a “race”. But there’s nothing fundamentally distinguishing “of Italian descent” from the types of groups which are considered “races”. If (hypothetically) someone were to hate people on the basis of those people being of Italian descent, this would be quite similar to if they were racist in a specific sense towards some group which is considered a “race”. However, presently, it would, I think, be significantly less harmful at the margin, because there are much fewer people that feel that way, and the overall harm scales super-linearly with the number-or-proportion-or-something of people who have the given prejudice. That being said, I’m pretty sure that guy is trolling, and his complaint of anti-Italian racism is presumably insincere.
  • burnished 5y ago
    'the first american, columbus' the fuck are you talking about? so all the people that were already living on the continent just don't count? Fuck Columbus.