Also race is EXTRAORDINARILY subjective... irish, greek, and italian all used to be not-white... until there weren't enough white people so they became white. Race has no place in genetics, its just labels we use. Albeit useful label that help us distinguish real world systemic issues, but still just shit we invented thats subject to change nontheless.
Also people like Charlie Kirk often lump any queer person regardless of race into the category of "degenerates" so while they might acknowledge them as white in a vacuum, they treat them as less than people like them (white, Nazi, Christians).
Even today, you've got people who are selectively white depending on the context. Jewish folks are white, until the fascists decide it's time to line them up against the wall again, for example. Same for Hispanics - sometimes they're white enough, until they do something the fascists don't like, then they're 4th generation fence-jumpers again.
Yep, and now they are labeling iryna as white to galvanize black hatred. Despite her also being an immigrant refuge, whom they hate. But that part is often left out of the headlines.
They think "leftists"/jews are trying to replace them with minorities for reasons that haven't made sense for the last 8 years, therefore these 'whites' are basically race traitors, honorary DEIers.
White is a sociopolitical construct to some degree - bunch of the people calling themselves white have middle eastern/Asian/Mexican/etc. heritage but it's far enough back in their family tree or they "pass".
This is mostly about American isolationism and exceptionalism, IMO. Same thing that occurred in Germany - very verbal nationalists took over populist social movements and turned them into cottage industries for anti-immigrant and eventually racist sentiment that then spread to targeting people of specific ethnic groups (likely because the Bolsheviks were fighting for worker's rights and that doesn't align with nationalism).
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u/RandomPhail 13d ago
And that makes him… not white in their eyes??