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> Although, ironically, a lot of those Europeans were also not considered white contemporaneously and it’s only now that their descendants consider themselves w
by like_any_other 11mo ago
> Although, ironically, a lot of those Europeans were also not considered white contemporaneously and it’s only now that their descendants consider themselves white and rail about all the non white immigeants
This is outright false: https://www.academia.edu/69843076/The_Becoming_White_Thesis_Revisited https://www.academia.edu/69843076/The_Becoming_White_Thesis_...
In fact it is so false, that 8 Irishmen signed the US Declaration of Independence: https://www.irishpost.com/life-style/meet-8-irishmen-signed-us-declaration-independence-july-4-1776-156950 https://www.irishpost.com/life-style/meet-8-irishmen-signed-...
The myth was likely started by Noel Ignatiev's "How the Irish Became White" book [1]. The same Noel Ignatiev that co-founded the "Race Traitor" journal, "which promoted the idea that "treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity"". Who would have thought such an unbiased and objective academic would be falsifying history. It's an exercise for the reader how something both so unbelievable, and so easily falsified, could persist for so long in academia.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Ignatiev https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Ignatiev