My definition of whiteness is simple: it's whether you can pass as an Anglo. That's pretty much it. What counts as "passing as an Anglo" heavily depends on time and place, but that's what it really boils down to in the end. Anglos are definitionally white, and every other European ethnic group, even the French, the Danish, and the Dutch, are only white insofar as Anglos consider them close enough to be Anglo.
How else do you explain WWI when Anglos called Hitler's ubermensch a bunch of yellow-skinned, slanty-eyed, buck-teeth, dog-eating Asiatic marauders? Or this infamous poster, which boils down to Anglos, in this case an Anglo American, calling Germans the n-word. It's because there are levels of whiteness, and some ham sandwich gammon fuck is at the very top of the pyramid. And in the case of WWI, the ham sandwich gammon fuck decided that blue eyes blonde hair Germans are no longer white, so blue eyes blonde hair Germans stopped being white. And after WWI is over, the ham sandwich gammon fuck decided that blue eyes blonde hair Germans can be white again, so blue eyes blonde hair Germans became white again.
All that nonsense about blood quantum or religion or cultural affinity or language is bullshit. The real question is: does the ham sandwich consider you a fellow ham sandwich?
Yes? Then you're a fellow Anglo and the world belongs to you and me.
Close enough? Then you're white and the world is yours as well but us Anglos get first dibs.
No? Then you're a filthy nonwhite who can make T-shirts and shoes for us.
Maybe? Then you're conditionally white/white-with-an-asterisk who us Anglos will strategically employ for our gain before throwing you under the bus when you've outlived your usefulness.
My definition of whiteness is simple: it's whether you can pass as an Anglo. That's pretty much it. What counts as "passing as an Anglo" heavily depends on time and place, but that's what it really boils down to in the end. Anglos are definitionally white, and every other European ethnic group, even the French, the Danish, and the Dutch, are only white insofar as Anglos consider them close enough to be Anglo.
How else do you explain WWI when Anglos called Hitler's ubermensch a bunch of yellow-skinned, slanty-eyed, buck-teeth, dog-eating Asiatic marauders? Or this infamous poster, which boils down to Anglos, in this case an Anglo American, calling Germans the n-word. It's because there are levels of whiteness, and some ham sandwich gammon fuck is at the very top of the pyramid. And in the case of WWI, the ham sandwich gammon fuck decided that blue eyes blonde hair Germans are no longer white, so blue eyes blonde hair Germans stopped being white. And after WWI is over, the ham sandwich gammon fuck decided that blue eyes blonde hair Germans can be white again, so blue eyes blonde hair Germans became white again.
All that nonsense about blood quantum or religion or cultural affinity or language is bullshit. The real question is: does the ham sandwich consider you a fellow ham sandwich?
Yes? Then you're a fellow Anglo and the world belongs to you and me.
Close enough? Then you're white and the world is yours as well but us Anglos get first dibs.
No? Then you're a filthy nonwhite who can make T-shirts and shoes for us.
Maybe? Then you're conditionally white/white-with-an-asterisk who us Anglos will strategically employ for our gain before throwing you under the bus when you've outlived your usefulness.