Comment on If the NAACP is for colored people, why is there not one for Asian People, White People, People of Middle Eastern Desent?

cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• nocturne@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think you may be missing a negative in your opening sentence.

  White people as a group are marginalized in America.

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  • cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    ope

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• YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Fox News would argue otherwise.

  But in all seriousness, look at the past 100 years and all sorts of “white” groups have been marginalized. It used to be that the Irish and the Italians were both dubbed “not good enough” back in ”the day”. That’s part of why “Columbus Day” became a holiday originally.

  These days? Yeah, not so much, but you’ll still see some vitriol towards Eastern Europeans for instance.

  But you’ll also see Italians decrying immigrants and how the foreigners are ruining things, and missing the plot.

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  • cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I agree. To expand on my original meaning, there isn’t nearly as strong of a “White people” identity in America like there is for Black people or for individual ethnicities. Even the actual “White power” people tend to be a specific subset like Southern, Northern European, Protestant, etc.

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