I’m called a Nazi because I happily am proud of white culture. But every day I think fondly of the brown king Cyrus the Great who invented the first ever empire, and the Japanese icon Murasaki Shikibu who wrote the first novel ever. What if humans just loved each other? History teaches us that we have all been, and always will be - great
read the whole thread, her responses are even worse
I understand how “white” become the word for a sort of assumed racial default, but it’s really annoying to have to play this weird motte-and-bailey when people don’t understand or pretend not to understand that whiteness is not about skin pigmentation and never was. Wanna check my skin on a Pantone chart againts Hitler’s and then guess which one of us he thought was merely an “honorary aryan”?
I wish we had a better word for it.
“Italian” was excluded from “white” in the US in living memory
I mean, we don’t consider Italians white too over here, but we also don’t think there’s some kind of “white culture”. I’m Flemish and that’s my culture, and it’s definitely not the same as any other Western European culture.
Italians have been treated badly in some parts of the U. S. in living memory, but never excluded from legal or social whiteness. None of Italians, Irish, or Jews were ever legally non-white in the US (barring otherwise non-white members of those groups); on census & immigration records, we’ve been white as long as whiteness has been legally recorded.
Socially, Irish, Italians, & Jews have at worst been in the white-but-icky category, above native, Black, & otherwise brown folks.