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Whoooole lotta people in the comments of this one mistaking "white" for "European."
The concept of "whiteness" as interpreted by Americans isn't remotely old. It's the way Italians, the Irish, the English, the Polish, Scandinavians, and so-on have melded into an amorphous mass. https://twitter.com/Travon/status/1278769857102635009
The concept of "whiteness" as interpreted by Americans isn't remotely old. It's the way Italians, the Irish, the English, the Polish, Scandinavians, and so-on have melded into an amorphous mass. https://twitter.com/Travon/status/1278769857102635009
Irish and Italians didn't start off "white" in America, but for the sake of political gain and social bargaining, they are now.
And I assure you, the Germans, French, Scottish, Swedish, etc. don't consider their cultures interchangeable mirrors of one another that unite them.
And I assure you, the Germans, French, Scottish, Swedish, etc. don't consider their cultures interchangeable mirrors of one another that unite them.
The US sociopolitical landscape has essentially taken European immigrants and Vitamixed them into a bland generalization, in the name of white supremacy.
This is why "I love my French heritage!" or "I love my Swiss heritage!" hits different than "I love my white heritage." The former 2 are specific cultural histories/experiences. The latter is literally just a statement in support of white supremacy, the origin of US "whiteness."
