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[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 75 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What happened to "an attacked nation has the right to defend itself"?

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 4 days ago (2 children)

that only applies to white people, silly!

[–] MrVilliam@lemm.ee 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If Caucasians count as white, then Iranians are white. A lot of Iranians are also religious and right wing too. The average Republican and the average Iranian would agree with each other on nearly everything if they could somehow have a conversation without divulging their country, clothes, and specific God.

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

You got it the wrong way around. Race is made up to justify racism.

Italians (and the Irish, too, I think) once didn't count as white, for crying out loud.

[–] wpb@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Germans too. Benjamin Franklin called them swarthy. "White" has always been a social construct to delineate an ingroup.

[–] MrVilliam@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Okay, but if literal Caucasians from Caucasia don't count as white, then wtf does white even mean.

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 days ago

then wtf does white even mean

nothing, that’s the whole point of whiteness

its a made up in-group created to justify and facilitate european colonialism

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 days ago

"White" is whatever the racists want to establish as the civilized norm which needs to defend itself against the non-white barbarians.

Arguing with "caucasians are from Caucasia" is stooping to the racist's level of discourse. You shouldn't argue with Nazis about the nature of "Aryans", either.

[–] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

White is Israel and US Republican elites.

[–] mobotsar@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's anyone who can go out wearing cargo shorts, tall socks, and trainers without being immediately made fun of.

[–] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago