Ok so here’s my plan: We pretend to be racists so we can tell other racists that brown and black people are also white now, so everybody in the world is on the same team.
Idreamofcheesy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
So legit, racism is the reason we don’t have as many slurs.
There used to be so many because you could be racist against anything! Italians have big noses, greeks are sweaty, Catholics are cultists, etc.
The racists realized they were too divided, so they invented whiteness. That guy isn’t German, he’s white. Now he is on our team and he can help us hate Brown people. That guy isn’t French, he’s white! Here fellow white friend, hold this noose.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day ago
Idreamofcheesy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You son of a bitch! It’s genius!
RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They didn’t invent racism in the’50s
Idreamofcheesy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is all head canon and I don’t feel like looking it up, but they didn’t invent racism, they just invented whiteness.
That’s why Irish people were discriminated (and genocided) against until someone in the 20th century. Now Irish are white. People made a huge deal about JFK being a Catholic president because he wasn’t “one of them.” Now Catholics are indistinguishable from other white crowds. They speak with one voice (in their minds, not a real generalization).
Jews were on their way to whiteness and then Trump happened in 2016 and the old conspiracy theories became relevant again, and now they’re back to being separate.