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Jews for a long time now have been functionally white It's a Schrodinger's white guy situation, often even to themselves. I've seen the same person claim to be
by Causality1 5y ago
Jews for a long time now have been functionally white
It's a Schrodinger's white guy situation, often even to themselves. I've seen the same person claim to be both white and not white in different times and contexts. I wonder if Irish and Italian people went through a similar period on their way to whiteness and we just don't know about it because no one was listening.
- iammisc 5y agoWell, i'm indian, and I was told by a college professor in a history of immigration class that I am white because I believe in things like hard-work to better my family's situation, education, etc. The book he had us read was all about how different races got 'whitened', and he was convinced Indians are being 'whitened'. Let's just sit here and consider for a minute the inherent racism in referring to anyone being rich as having the quality of 'being white'.
- colpabar 5y ago> Let's just sit here and consider for a minute the inherent racism in referring to anyone being rich as having the quality of 'being white'. I guess you never saw this. https://www.newsweek.com/smithsonian-race-guidelines-rational-thinking-hard-work-are-white-values-1518333 https://www.newsweek.com/smithsonian-race-guidelines-rationa...
- iammisc 5y agoOh I did... and rolled my eyes.
- Causality1 5y ago"Hard work is internalized racism" might be the most 2020s sentence I've ever read.
- alphabettsy 5y agoYea, actually there are plenty of books and papers about it.