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pretty telling that first reation of some here can be summed with: what is really white?

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[–] hayvan@piefed.world 107 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It will be skin colour again, but limited to a tighter spectrum.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 115 points 1 month ago (3 children)

People really forget that racism against Italians and Irish was a thing.

[–] muffedtrims@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] lucyph0r@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Poor Irish folk. I love the Irish. And while I've plenty of opportunity to watch blazing saddles it just doesn't appeal to me. Is it wrong of me to defend the Irish in light of my ignorance of this humorous show?

[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
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[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It'll just be the intra-European racism that already exists, which doesn't particularly follow skin color.

Germanic, Celtic, Slavic, Mediterranean, etc.. Each with their own subdivisions ready to go if the others were wiped out.

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 10 points 1 month ago

As a man from that little village here, fuck those cunts from the village over there! Their fields are full of hamsters and their wheat smells of elderberries.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

mediterreans would be darker skin, so they are the first targets. then it goes to anti-semitism in the end.

[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Historically, no. In Germanic regions it's first Jews, then Slavs, then Celts, then Mediterraneans. Mediterraneans get credit for the Reniassance, Greco-Roman civilization and Christianity.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Mediterranean is too broad. Northern Italian and Greek were ok for Nazis.

Certainly not Libyans, Egyptians, Palestinians etc.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I was going to say, some pasty motherfuckers who can't be exposed to the sun for 15 minutes without going to the hospital are going to say they're the superior people.

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

They tried, but everyone supported Macklemore.

[–] smh@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

Nah, as such a pasty motherfucker, other white people expect you to tan. I grew up being teased for my paleness and my neighbor offered to let me use her tanning bed. (I declined because I burn but don't tan).

My public school system was 100% white until my senior year of high school when a black family sent their kids to kindergarten.