"our glorious past" No. I hate this narrative. My family's history comes from Italy and Ukraine. Those are the people I share a past with https://twitter.com/StFrexit/status/880937232625942528 …
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1/ Hi. There are 3 concepts you're conflating; best to separate them to make your argument clearer to your readers and yourself.
1/ Race. You are White. Doesn't change despite where you live. It gives you race privilege ALWAYS, despite of individual life circumstance
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Ah, yea. I should have phrased that better - I have a certain amount of privilege. My white privilege interesects with being queer and fat.
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Why intersectionality is so useful; makes race priority. "Look for where your privilege intersects with somebody's oppression." -Ijeoma Oluo
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3/ Race is imposed, socially defined, on basis of what you look like. Social judgements about superiority/inferiority of biological traits
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4/ Second, ethnicity - that's about culture. Also socially defined, but it's about what we do that gives our identity meaning (language etc)
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5/ What does it mean to *feel* Italian/Ukrainian/etc? Cultural experiences differ for different racial groups. E.g. Who is "us" & "them"?
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6/ Third, nationality. Legal entity but contested. As you note, Ukrainians didn't have a country until 1991 referendum on independence.
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7/ The issue here is to remain aware about what race & Whiteness is: it doesn't mean ethnic & nationality diffs/ inequalities don't exist...
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8/ It means that you don't stop being White (a race) because of ethnic & nationality disputes/historic divides between & within White groups
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I'm sorry that's what came across. That totally wasn't my intention. And thanks for pointing it out!
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I'll be honest and say that rant obviously wasnt super well thought out but I get really frustrated at white supremacists...
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