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That's as WASPy as WASPy gets. It's not important that the specimen is an active Protestant. The point is that their ancestry (with some decent adjacency to: w
by quesera 11mo ago
That's as WASPy as WASPy gets.
It's not important that the specimen is an active Protestant. The point is that their ancestry (with some decent adjacency to: white, anglo-saxon, protestant) landed them in a place of general privilege.
Musk is a WASP by any definition.
But it's always been a pejorative, and always used as a cudgel. Musk is not responsible for his ancestry. But he certainly benefited from it.
- lazide 11mo agoBwahaha. So not Anglo-Saxon. Not Protestant. But somehow he is. But white. How is this not just blatant racism again?
- quesera 11mo agoWASP was always a pejorative way of saying "established white European-ancestry American aristocracy". It never applied to poor white people. It is just a label for the most common and most established phenotype in early America, up to and including the mid-20th century. The label has lost salience over the intervening decades, but it has not faded down to be lost in the ambient level of population wealth and power. What's your point here?
- lazide 11mo agoRead the thread. People definitely are applying it to white as a race, and trying to portray everyone (including poor whites) as benefitting. It’s part of the general race war type rhetoric which has been building for awhile. What do you think my point is?
- quesera 11mo agoI have no idea what your point is. AFAICT, you intentionally goaded this thread into a dissection of WASP-vs-white, which serves zero purpose except to give you a chance to espouse something which you still haven't done, but strikes me as likely to be pretty boring after all of this.