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comment by tacocat

My takeaway was whiteness will always be redefined because it's a bullshit concept and the people who feel threatened are ignorant of history. They also probably don't realize Rafael Cruz is Cuban because he looks like a half melted wax sculpture of Joseph McCarthy





user-inactivated  ·  2101 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The people who feel threatened are the ones re-defining it is what you're stating, right? Experiencing brain lag. If so, it'd make for a confusing time when people who don't identify as white reject the shift in identity from others.

tacocat  ·  2101 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The people who will redefine it are nebulous at best. Italians, Jews, Poles, etc. in this country didn't become white over night. The frightened people are the ones who don't realize that, unless they're 100% white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, their ancestors weren't white and the coming horde of brown people will have a considerable portion of its population be white enough by the standards of the 2030's.