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prole ,
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I didn't do that, you just did. Try to grasp a little nuance.

On a systemic level, "white," is power. Power often means negative, yes.

In the US, are Italian Americans considered white? Yes. How about Irish? Hard to think of many people whiter than the Irish. I say this as an American of Irish descent.

And yet, their inclusion in this definition is relatively recent. Up until recently, Irish and Italian people were decidedly not white. And yet, the color of their pale skin...? I don't understand?

So clearly, the term (at the systemic level, obviously, I'm not talking about individual racism) is elastic. It is culturally defined in the context of the times.

At a systemic level, "racism" implies oppression by that power. Oppression against "whiteness" at a systemic level is not possible because there is no power in a position to oppress whites. By definition, they're at the top.

I fully expect you to just gloss over everything I said and call me racist again. Maybe someone will read this and think twice about how they view these things.

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