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No one can claim having more superior jeans. Even the feared Mongols fell out of fashion.
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Meh. Dad nailed it. "Son, we're not the best race, we're the most violent."
Been thinking on that for 30 years. Still rings true.
The lesson was supposed to be "Son, races aren't actually a thing, they're a categorical method of sorting people into groups based on variable forms of bigotry. Where one race begins and another ends is as arbitrary as the lines we draw in the sand."
Not turning the white supremacy around into some kind of self-hating racism. That makes about as much sense as the white supremacy. And progresses the human race about as far.
In 8th grade I was talking to my bff who is half Druze and my buddy Dan whose family immigrated from Portugal about how it’s weird that Dan is “white” and yet has a dark brown skin tone while my BFF was not despite having a similar skin tone to myself who is very white.
I went to a pretty mixed high school and a lot of people there decided it was okay to be racist to white people. I asked my Portuguese friend why he didn't have a problem with it, and he said because he's not white. Same with my Polish friend. Same with my Portuguese teacher.
Apparently you can earn all the benefits of white privilege while not self-identifying as white, and as long as you aren't calling yourself "Irish", people are okay with that.
For the record you should not be racist to anyone and the “you can’t be racist to white people” are no different than klanspersons.
Hey thanks for saying that.