Problem with trying to collectivize "whiteness" is that descendants of slaveholding aristocrats in the South have nothing in common with descendants of poor Appalachian whites, poor white 19th century Irish/Italian immigrants, etc., except for skin pigmentation. Lazy reductionism
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Also why the fuck should Eastern European Jews who fled the Holocaust (some of whom are still alive) be required to accept "whiteness" as a self-defining racial category, as though they have a common historical experience with plantation owners in Mississippi
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People who claim that being white NECESSARILY and in ALL CASES must confer some inherent "privilege" clearly have never spent any time in Appalachia. Male life expectancy in McDowell County, West Virginia (90% white) is shorter than in Guatemala and Namibia, you fucking idiots
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Racial theories have never been my primary area of interest, but as the purveyors of this stuff become more domineering, you are FORCING previously-ambivalent people to engage. And you are INVITING a reactionary backlash that's going to be incredibly disturbing and dangerous
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This *is* the reactionary backlash. It's segregation, discrimination, blood purity testing. You don't need a racist counterforce, the racism is coming from inside the building
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