I genuinely have no idea where the joke came from but it seems pretty big since I've heard it IRL a few times now. Where did this come from?

  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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    3 years ago

    It's Italian-Americans specifically, and it's because in America they're the progenitors of a really funny racial identity politics where they understand themselves as "ethnic whites" even though they haven't been anything other than white since the 50s. Most white Americans do this to one degree or another, but Italian-Americans are the best at it, with the next probably being Irish-Americans.

    • crime [she/her, any]
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      3 years ago

      With Italian and Irish americans you also get the "we're the target of racism too" brainworms from how both groups were treated a hundred years ago, mostly as an excuse to say racist stuff about POC