• Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    Why couldn’t someone be a white jew before?? Of course they could. Is this some usa centric thing?

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      2 months ago

      They weren’t considered white in early 20th century Europe either… There was a whole thing about it…

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        2 months ago

        German Jews weren’t white? Of course they were, and I don’t really care for “what the nazis (or other racist group) considered them as”.

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          2 months ago

          Being white is a fully made up concept and not some biological reality so “what the Nazis considered them as” is literally just as valid as whatever idea you have about what white is. All it really comes down to how is society treats the given group.

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            1 month ago

            That was the most stupid thing I have heard in a long time.

            It’s probably some racist conspiracy crap if you dig into it so you’re blocked lol

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      2 months ago

      “whiteness” as a whole tends to a category that gets smaller the more powerful racists become in government. jews are white up until american christofacists no longer need their support at which point they’re no longer white