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[–] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

These are just the type of kids that never shared their toys growing up.

The super bowl is the most American thing out there. Hispanics are a big part of America. Let's have a Hispanic focused half time show! Thats never happened before it'll be cool!

"NO ITS MY WHITE HALF TIME SHOW AND IT NEEDS TO BE WHITE FOR ME"

Actual toddler tantrum behavior.

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Meanwhile lady gaga was there. And she was singing in english.

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yea but she's Italian so she's not white, but hey atleast she's not Irish.

/s

It's so stupid and subjective what's white anyways. Like buddy comes from Spain and people consider them white but oh noes they come from somewhere south of the US or in the case or PR in the US and suddenly not white. Jokes on them were all descendants of rapist colonizers 😂

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Like buddy comes from Spain and people consider them white

Noooo, Spain isn't considered white to some racists. I'm not sure why that consistently comes up. You're "white" or "one of the good ones" until you're not to racists. They're bullies against others and it's kind of random. If an ICE guy pulls a person from Spain over and they're speaking Spanish, they're going in. Racism is stupid af and can't be predicted. No one is safe.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

My grandpa was 100% Spaniard, pale skin and blue eyes.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

And? I've seen black people with pale skin and light eyes.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 0 points 21 hours ago

Have you ever seen a wall painted white, and told everyone it's black? Yeah you probably have.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Wait hold up!

Was bad bunny trolling with his very much white suit?

How do you guys interpret the white clothes he was wearing?

For example, do they represent indigenous people's clothes since most common clothes back then were white or at least colorless? I have a photo of two of my great great grand parents and they were wearing white long pants or shorts.

Or is he saying that there's a brown person inside white people too?

Or that some of us try to be whiter by our clothing?

[–] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

There's a turn of phrase in Spanish. "Vestir de blanco" or "To dress all in white." Basically, it means "putting on your Sunday best". The outfit itself was a nod to Puerto Rican sugarcane farmers.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/bad-bunnys-super-bowl-decoded-what-halftime-meant-to-proud-puerto-ricans-like-me/ar-AA1W2RcM

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 8 hours ago

Alright, I imagined it wasn't just something he picked for fun.

[–] TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

These guys are having more fun that these antiwoke fuckers. I have yet to see an anti woke influencer expressing genuine joy.

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah after seeing pam bondi yesterday i think white people need to be erased way more now. time to just admit white people have royally fucked up. Time for a change.

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

Suicide pact?

[–] muxika@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Is it bad that whenever I see these types of alarmist posts, I respond with "Happy Great Replacement!"?

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[–] Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 36 points 2 days ago (17 children)

Is bad bunny not white? I thought Puerto Rico was colonized by the spanish wiping out the majority of the native population and he looks pretty spanish. I guess this is one of those "the Irish aren't white" situations.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"White" doesn't actually mean anything real. Italians and Irish weren't considered "white" until relatively recently.

[–] end_stage_ligma@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The Irish are some of the most fair complexioned duckers I've ever seen excluding a Finn and an albino.

Are you sure racists aren't just suffering from crippling cognitive disability?

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The reason for this is that race is a made-up concept.

Race is a pure "us-vs-them" term. That's why the term "race" was roughly equivalent to "nationality" in most European languages before the term fell out of use after WW2.

If you read texts from 1920s Europe, they frequently talk about the "French race", the "German race" or the "English race". When the Nazis talked about the "uber race", they didn't mean white people, but instead meant German people. They saw the French, the English and so on as inferior races. (Which makes the concept of neonazis from other countries than Germany quite absurd.)

In the USA, there weren't enough people of one nationality to dominate the area, so they had to band together and create a "shared white identity", so their us-vs-them became roughly equivalent to the continent of origin.


Since "race" doesn't have any actual definition apart from us-vs-them, it can be adapted to whatever makes sense right now.

A "white person" can be someone who looks vaguely white. It could be someone where the majority of their ancestors come from a certain part of the world (e.g., excluding Ireland, Eastern Europe, North Africa, ... even though they might look indistinguishable from people from e.g. Western Europe). It could be someone where every single one of their ancestors come from a certain part of the world. It could even be just people of a certain socio-economic group. You could even define that "true whiteness" requires a certain political affiliation.


Side note: while the term "race" fell out of use in most of Europe after WW2 and is now being reimported from the US with US meaning, the same is not true for the word "racism" that stayed in use in most European languages and is stilm used with the old European definition.

So to someone from the US, a French man hating all Brits is not a racist, but to someone from Europe, he is a racist.

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[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Uh, not really. Puerto Ricans are mostly pretty squarely in the Latino category. There's an entire play and movie about this called West Side Story.

[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

But look at him, he's whiter than Trump!

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[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago

I have no idea of their nationalities or whatever, but some of them look pretty white to me? Just tanned.

[–] pr0sp3kt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 days ago (6 children)

What the hell is to be white? Is it a culture? A skin color? If that is the case I would be white because I have green eyes, I am more than 6ft and I have light skin, but this isn't to be white actually I am latin American I don't get it...

[–] MadBits@europe.pub 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Until I was about 16 I never actually realized what "white" means. I considered turks, arabs, chinese / most asia, europe and America (south, central and northern) to be white. Africans and other darker skin colors were just black. I never really paid attention to it and never really understood the color hatred because our "racism" was just hating other cultures of which morale you do not agree with. I guess Eastern EU is just a different kind of game.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“racism” was just hating other cultures of which morale you do not agree with.

racism was just being jealous of other cultures for whatever reason.

[–] MadBits@europe.pub 2 points 3 hours ago

Or that, yea.

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[–] VicVinegar@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Many Puerto Ricans are white. I've known many people over the years who are blonde hair, blue eyes, or green eyed gingers with freckles, but are as Puerto Rican as they come. Ask your local MAGA turd if they can explain why that might be.

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

My half Cuban half Colombian best friend is white as snow with blonde hair and blue eyes. When she starts speaking fluent Spanish, people look twice.

She actually had to threaten a lawsuit because she was discriminated at work because of being Latina. No one knew until she spoke Spanish and then her manager started treating her differently.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 195 points 3 days ago (4 children)

There are at least 3 white people here. This fuckhead just doesn't see it because they're dressed differently then they think white people dress.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 143 points 3 days ago (7 children)

I was gonna say some of these people look pretty white to me. But then we're getting into the arbitrary question of who counts as white which is probably way beyond her understanding.

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[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 49 points 2 days ago (5 children)

As a Latino I grew up watching movies with nothing but white people on screen. But I’m not a crying like bitch like MAGA

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[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 100 points 3 days ago (19 children)

Aren't most of those people white?

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