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Anon watches Spider-Man
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I need a Venn diagram of whiteness to really get this. Or a scale of some sort
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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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although white
Can't really say that when the whole category is nebulous and subjective
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Italians and Irish people were considered a lower-tier of white people
I'm pretty sure they weren't considered any tier of "white" at that time.
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It's why the US has St Patrick's Day and Christopher Columbus Day. They needed to prove their worth to earn "whiteness"
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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, subhumans really. Same with Polish.-
Anglo-Saxon was the only real white
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