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[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 49 points 1 month ago (4 children)

History is filled with people who were promised that we would pretend they were white if they just sold out everyone they cared about. Hasn't actually paid off yet.

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[–] Seimhe@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

The Irish might be an exception there. See How the Irish became White by Noel Ignatiev.

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[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

And Italians!

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[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

People forget it was only like a century ago when Irish and Italians weren't white enough for the wasps.

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

Not even that long ago. In Rocky, Stallone gets called slurs

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[–] MML@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Depends where you're at, my family doesn't like the eye-towel-yans for some bizarre reason I've never been able to find out, but I guess that would be expecting racism to make sense.

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[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 2 points 1 month ago

They still remind us!

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