What is considered white. Hell, I’m Sicilian and some of my Hispanic friends are as light or lighter than me. Of course we know with chuds, they will find another group to demonize.

I’m reading a book on immigration by Chomsky’s daughter and the thought just came to me. I’d like for that to be the case, my girlfriend is a Latina and a lot of my friends are as well, I’d rather them eventually be absorbed into the whiteness blob so they aren’t in quite as much danger from bigots.

After that, I’d rather whiteness as a gatekeeping concept go the fuck away entirely.

  • TillieNeuen [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    There are already-existing racial divides in central and south American countries that I know just enough about to know that I don't know enough to talk about it intelligently, lol. But I would say, yes, that immigrants that can visually "pass" the paper bag test will become more and more accepted into whiteness, while people whose families may have immigrated from the same country in the same generation (so they've "been here," as people say, for the same length of time) may still be considered outsiders because they look "too black" or "too indigenous." I don't think there'll be a new group to demonize, there will just be a new line drawn that will include white-appearing Hispanic people, while everyone else might be told to "go back where you came from" no matter that their family has been US citizens for 4 generations or whatever.