• Tankiedesantski [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Whiteness was never really about skin tone or physical features. Remember that the Yanks didn’t consider the Irish white and the Germans didn’t consider Slavs white. Line all those 4 different nationalities up and you’d have a hard time telling them apart, but racism is dumb.

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind
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        1 year ago

        Honestly the use of “whiteness” as a social construct is not helping. People not neck deep into the terminology just don’t understand it, and it’s also not consistent with others.