There are certain ethnicities that although white, have been marginalized and scapegoated for societies problems in the past. Groups like Italians and Irish people were considered a lower-tier of white people, just above black people, especially in the US in the 18-1900’s.
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tetris11@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
I need a Venn diagram of whiteness to really get this. Or a scale of some sort
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
Italians and Irish people were considered a lower-tier of white people
I’m pretty sure they weren’t considered any tier of “white.”
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
It’s why the US has St Patrick’s Day and Christopher Columbus Day. They needed to prove their worth to earn “whiteness”
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
someguy3@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Anglo-Saxon was the
toponly real white. Catholics were hated (so most of the mainland European). Irish were put into indentured servitude. Italians were essentially black. Ukrainians were slavs and were an entirely different species of humans. Same with Polish.match@pawb.social 5 hours ago
Germanized propagandist!