• cosmicrookie@lemmy.world
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      I think that you maybe meant 1 out of 7 instead of 7%?

      That said, being white is not the same as being a white nationalist. They are extremists and a minority withing the white population

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      It’s nationalism (the idea that different peoples deserve their own separate countries) with the people in question being white people. It manages to combine the most problematic aspects of nationalism such as its propensity to drive governments to commit countless atrocities with the most problematic aspects of whiteness as an identity. In short, it’s modern naziism.

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          So explain the people marching with swastikas last summer or at Charlottesville or hell the American Nazi party which was founded after wwii.

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            You think a few knuckle heads waving that stupid fucking flag means the Nazis are back??! 😂 😂

            You also believe in the Boogeyman? You have momma check under your bed at night?

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      This number only bolsters them because they want a feel good hate club where they’re a special snowflake

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      7% would be 566,035,294 total

      251,000,000 in US alone

      That leaves only 315,000,000 in Europe

      And that’s even before adding in another ~hundred mil from Commonwealth countries or who knows how many immigrants elsewhere in the world.

      Only an idiot (or white supremacist) would think Europe is less than 42% white. Your 7% number was pulled out of your arse.

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      What even is white? Like who is considered white seems to change every 5 or so years and the people in Europe usually don’t even identify as white.

      Like in my native language calling someone white doesn’t even make sense or exist. Also calling someone back in my native language is actually insulting since black and dirty are the same word and people assume the former.