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  • Hyperreality
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    01 year ago

    Out of interest, would you describe Romani people (pejorative ‘gypsy’) as being white?

    • queermunist she/her
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      -11 year ago

      If they were given their own settler colony and started being treated as an equal by all the other white countries? Yes.

      I wouldn’t consider a European Jew before the formation of Israel to be white, but they’re sure as fuck white now.

      • Hyperreality
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        01 year ago

        If someone of white European heritage burns down a synagogue frequented by what you consider people of white European heritage, would you still consider that racist given they’re the same race? Or would you consider that less racist than someone burning down a church frequented by black people?

        • queermunist she/her
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          -11 year ago

          If someone of white European heritage burns down a synagogue frequented by what you consider people of white European heritage, would you still consider that racist given they’re the same race?

          Individual people can be racist in all sorts of kooky ways, like there’s certainty individuals racist against white Irish people and against white people from Mediterranean countries. So, yeah, it’s possible for a kooky individual to be racist against Jewish white people.

          But that’s not reflective of society, of systems of social or political power, or of the current cultural epoch. That’s just a freak.

        • @OurToothbrush@lemmy.mlM
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          -31 year ago

          It is almost like Jewish people have a conditional relationship with whiteness. The idf soldiers bombing children’s hospitals certainly are capital W White.