• Rob Bos
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    1 year ago

    Whiteness is arbitrary and can be withdrawn pretty fast. That’s part of the problem, white isn’t a race, it’s an ingroup.

    Ask a Catholic how quickly they can be exempted from white club.

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      That’s race in general too, same thing happens with mixed black people who grew up in an affluent white context.

      Race is basically “made real” through racism, which is largely dependent on economic relations. Our modern notion of race didn’t really develop until the 1700s. To me being anti-racist is about criticizing the notion of race itself, with the understanding that it’s been made in to a real construct that has power through racism.

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      Muslims used to be considered pretty white before 9/11, Italians used to not be considered white in the early 1900s.