I actually think this would make an excellent struggle session, so I might just save my thoughts for that. But yeah, I think the guy who looks "white" but has a last name like Chavez will be let into the club. I just think for every one person like that there's 10 who still won't fit the definition.
Admittedly, some of this is just my "gut" feeling, as white person who's been surrounded by a this stuff his whole life. But I also think there's some precedent for the definition getting narrower, not broader. IIRC South African whites got even more narrow in how they defined "white" as they were faced with losing privilege.
I don't think they're largely the people coming to or growing up in the United States though, because whiter people have more privilege in their home countries.
I actually think this would make an excellent struggle session, so I might just save my thoughts for that. But yeah, I think the guy who looks "white" but has a last name like Chavez will be let into the club. I just think for every one person like that there's 10 who still won't fit the definition.
Admittedly, some of this is just my "gut" feeling, as white person who's been surrounded by a this stuff his whole life. But I also think there's some precedent for the definition getting narrower, not broader. IIRC South African whites got even more narrow in how they defined "white" as they were faced with losing privilege.
I dunno man, there's a whole lotta hispanic people who look indistinguishable from your average white person unless you ask them their last name.
Louis C.K. is Mexican for fucks sake., and there's plenty where he came from.
I don't think they're largely the people coming to or growing up in the United States though, because whiter people have more privilege in their home countries.