But no seriously if white people stopped identifying as white that would be a marked improvement in society, but of course :cracker: have no problem simultaneously identifying with this or that Euro ethnic groups, shit you have some white nationalists who consider themselves "part Cherokee"
The problem lays deeper somewhere in the material base of society and it takes more than just twitter threads to change that
Part of the problem is that the ethnic groups white people choose to identify with are often not even real groups in the US. Being "Irish-American" means next to nothing. There's little to no shared experience or history there, which means it is an ethnicity without a price to pick up or put down. White people in the US grow up with the shared experience of whiteness. Just because there's no rational basis for the existence of a white racial or ethnic identity being formed doesn't mean that there isn't a lived experience of being shielded by whiteness. You can't just decide to stop being white, because you have lived a life of whiteness. You can just decide to pick up or put down "German-American" or "Ang*o-American", however, because nothing actually binds them to you.
There is one group, one ethnic identity that has a real concrete connection to the American experience, a group that can transcend the all-consuming bounds of whiteness among Euro descended Americans, and that identity is.....
The problem lays deeper somewhere in the material base of society and it takes more than just twitter threads to change that
the people with money are white, so they make good nice cool things about whites, so everybody who can do so wants to be considered white. it's pretty simple
MAKE EYETALIANS POC AGAIN!
But no seriously if white people stopped identifying as white that would be a marked improvement in society, but of course :cracker: have no problem simultaneously identifying with this or that Euro ethnic groups, shit you have some white nationalists who consider themselves "part Cherokee"
The problem lays deeper somewhere in the material base of society and it takes more than just twitter threads to change that
Part of the problem is that the ethnic groups white people choose to identify with are often not even real groups in the US. Being "Irish-American" means next to nothing. There's little to no shared experience or history there, which means it is an ethnicity without a price to pick up or put down. White people in the US grow up with the shared experience of whiteness. Just because there's no rational basis for the existence of a white racial or ethnic identity being formed doesn't mean that there isn't a lived experience of being shielded by whiteness. You can't just decide to stop being white, because you have lived a life of whiteness. You can just decide to pick up or put down "German-American" or "Ang*o-American", however, because nothing actually binds them to you.
There is one group, one ethnic identity that has a real concrete connection to the American experience, a group that can transcend the all-consuming bounds of whiteness among Euro descended Americans, and that identity is.....
spoiler
G**MERS :only-good-gamer: :freeze-gamer: :gamer-gulag:
Irish-Americans when they get to Ireland and there's no corned beef to be found :frothingfash:
:warren-snake:
the people with money are white, so they make good nice cool things about whites, so everybody who can do so wants to be considered white. it's pretty simple