Dismissing that on the basis of ???

The conscious shifting of sympathy from black victims of lynchings to supporting or becoming the perpetrators, especially during the 1919 race riots which was instrumental to white Italian American identity formation in the North, to the point that poet Rosette Capotorto recalls "I was raised to be a racist"

But if you were talking about the Italian Americans along the Mississippi Delta, then you'd have a point, there their white identity wasn't as set in stone as in the north

Also this quote always gets me

Fascist-induced nationalism made inroads even into working-class strongholds that should have been the most immune to jingoistic sentiments. Luigi Antonini, the general secretary of the Italian-language Local 89 of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, was one of the most vocal Italian-American opponents of Mussolini’s colonial venture. But his anti-Fascist appeals often fell on deaf ears. Remarkably, a member of Local 89, John Milazzo, maintained:

"I collected money for the Italian Red Cross twice in the factory where I work and shall initiate additional fund-raisings until our beloved Duce orders our brothers who are bravely fighting in Africa to lay their arms. […]. I am not and shall never be a Fascist, but I am Italian, an unrepentant Italian. "