• TossedAccount [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    If Jewish and primarily Euro-descended Latine people are white, if Italian, Irish, Polish, and Slavic people are white, then this statement should be revised to something like "white people can't be subject to racism on the basis of them being white", i.e. white people aren't oppressed according to the specific racial caste system that emerged from the transatlantic slave trade. Marginalization against European ethnic groups allowed into the whites club by other "higher-ranking" whites (read: WASPs), arguably another distinct form of inter-ethnic "racism", has happened, but mostly before they were allowed in the whites club. The Holocaust happened before Jewish people had a secure position in the whites club and before Europe gave them a settler-colonial ethnostate.