• catloaf@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    “White” has a very flexible definition depending on the racism du jour. In the US, plenty of Europeans, like Irish, Spanish, and Italian people weren’t considered “white” for a long time.

    But now we’ve got plenty of brown and black people to be even more racist against, so they get to be “white” these days.

    • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Well of course. Race is a social construct, how we define races depends entirely on the society and its prejudices.