• Blackmist
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    6 months ago

    Reminds me of my sister-in-law’s husband, who fell heavily into Brexit propaganda. Ranting about foreigners coming over, to his wife’s face. She was from Iceland.

    They’re divorced now, oddly enough.

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      6 months ago

      It’s just the none white foreigners he was mad about, dude should have clarified his position…

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        It’s just the none white foreigners he was mad about, dude should have clarified his position…

        I dunno, Brexiters seemed to have a lot of trouble with the Polish.

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          Don’t forget them “Romanian” Gypsies!

          It’s a crying shame really, because if they’d sat down and spoke to a Romanian, they’d find that hatred of gypsies is one of the few things they’ve got in common.

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          “White” has a very flexible definition depending on the racism du jour. In the US, plenty of Europeans, like Irish, Spanish, and Italian people weren’t considered “white” for a long time.

          But now we’ve got plenty of brown and black people to be even more racist against, so they get to be “white” these days.

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            Well of course. Race is a social construct, how we define races depends entirely on the society and its prejudices.

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          I dunno, Brexiters seemed to have a lot of trouble with the Polish.

          there have been many examples and treatises of how the whiteness was/is non-uniform in the united states; is the same true in england?

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        Option 1: Use coded language that directly attacks your spouse.
        Option 2: Openly admit to being a hardcore racist.

        Sucks to suck.