Yanis Varoufakis on Twitter
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Spokesperson, not President. And, yes, because we Greeks, and the Irish, were in 1979 the blacks of Europe... https://t.co/vly7KKhHEm https://t.co/LHzfktkxaG— Yanis Varoufakis (@yanisvaroufakis) November 13, 2019

For real lmao

Like, seriously, I don't know who's more to blame for this but I'm gonna go with the English because you can't go wrong blaming the English, especially when it comes to confusing perceptions of race.

I'm gonna blame him too because "Greeks were the blacks of Europe" is a weird fucking take lol

  • Pezevenk [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Look, idk what kind of confusing perception they had in the UK but I know for sure that in Greece black meant black, as in the skin tone (so it includes Indians and Roma etc), and no one in Greece ever considered themselves or the Irish as black.