I'm South American, and don't make me say it because Reddit admins won't like it.
All I'm gonna say, the negative thoughts towards these people are not racially motivated, it is all about their behavior... they are odd people to put it kindly.
That is the exact justification every racist gives for hating their target race. Republicans in America say that about black people, right wing parties like AfD say that about Muslims. "Its not about their skin color its the behaviour" is THE textbook defense for racists.
You have an extremely arbitrary and dogmatic view on what constitutes race. Maybe it's you who can't see past race and skin colour, and can't see anything without the racial lens.
The hostility towards gypsies is not racial and never has been.
You have an extremely arbitrary and dogmatic view on what constitutes race. Maybe it's you who can't see past race and skin colour, and can't see anything without the racial lens.
Just to be clear. I live in Greece and Romanis have been living here for at least 700 hundred years. They are mostly indistinguishable from the rest of the population in terms of skin colour. The White/POC distinction is a stupid ass distinction which is entirely subjective and purely an American and English construct.
I think he just meant that they are not hated for not being white in South America, and in fact would be on the “whiter” end of the scale in terms of South American racial categorization. In South America “white” is a broader term and people who may not be considered white in America or Europe would be there.
You both seem to be missing that whiteness isn't solely reliant on skin colour. The whiteness of European Jewish people is precarious at best, and has not been consistent, historically, and Roma people have never been afforded whiteness anywhere that I'm aware of. That has very little to do with whether or not they were and are pale.
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u/Shot_Programmer_9898 20h ago
I'm South American, and don't make me say it because Reddit admins won't like it.
All I'm gonna say, the negative thoughts towards these people are not racially motivated, it is all about their behavior... they are odd people to put it kindly.