• pyre@lemmy.world
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    he’s not just Italian, he’s so Italian that he was named what jowling kowling rowling would name a token Italian character in harry potter

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    they’re trying to make him sound insane by referring to his manifesto with vague and scary language so I think we got our answer

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    I’m not white or Italian, I just like to complain on YouTube videos where a non Italian makes inauthentic Italian food.

    Makes me feel like a real ally who is standing up for something.

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      I like to complain on YouTube videos where an Italian makes food with tomatoes and calls it authentic Italian food because tomatoes are Mexican. Get on my level.

      So you heard it here, folks. Pizza is not Italian.

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    I’m latino and I still do not understand how the fuck you man manage to live always looking at whiteness. Such an hysteria with the skin color.

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        Yep, Jamaican here. Everyone is black, but there’s a huge problem with “bleaching” where people are whitening their skin color, as they perceive it to be of higher status.

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          I think skin bleaching might be a rampant issue. iirc Africans and Asians also do it. Everyone seems to want lighter skin. Wonder if it’s due to Western influence.

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            At least some of it comes from outdoor workers being darker from sun exposure and then cultures associate “dark = laborer.”

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              I still think it’s funny that tanning salons are so popular in the US, to look like you have free time to lounge in the sun.

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        Can confirm, I’m also latino and I’ve received various compliments on the color of my skin. It always trips me tf out because people here swear up and down that racism doesn’t exist and that there’s only classism. But then my friend would refuse to go to the mall on the affluent part of town complaining that her darker complexion would make her feel singled out even though she’s beautiful. It’s unreal.

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      Well obviously you can’t always look at the black ones, they disappear in the shadows. /joke

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    This took me too long to understand. Basically saying how Luigi is treated will determine if Italians are considered white. If he is treated with respect and not beaten while in custody Italians are confirmed as white people.

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    Am from Italy, italians are the whitest of the whites. Rome, the church, the basis of modern Patriarchy and white supremacy was born and raised here folks

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      I’m from Italy as well. I always like to remember a quote from Charles Mingus, who at some point in his career had an entire black band with the exception of his sax player, Charlie Mariano. When asked about it, he answered something along of the lines of “He’s not white, he’s Italian.”

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        Maybe the social meaning of ethnicity is really relative to the racist empires they’re situated in and not on some sort of inherent value

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          yea, its because the Italians (and Irish, Chinese, etc as well) generally came to America later and were poorer than the British/French/Germans etc were, so they were often discriminated against (plus the mafia thing, but that also generally comes from being poorer)

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        I wonder if this is partially a north/south italy divide thing (I don’t know all that much about Italy but I have heard the north was generally more privileged)

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          I don’t know about the north, but the places my family are from are not 5 star cities, especially my dads mom. her town is super small and is very poor.

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            I am told that where my italian great grandmother lived it was fairly normal to keep a goat in the house (like, indoors) for financial reasons

            interesting to me as I have never heard of that being a thing in the U.S.

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              my moms house she grew up here, had a whole thing for my grandfather to raise rabbits he would kill for the family to eat. I think someone complained about it or it wasn’t legal to do anymore or somthing so he stopped doing it.

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      the basis of modern Patriarchy

      So pagans weren’t white?

      white supremacy was born

      The Norse?

      What a weird definition you use

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        What I meant is simply that the roman empire and the Catholic church forged ideological colonial basis of today, not that racism didn’t exist before

        Also I meant Patriarchy as an overarching colonial institution, not as an isolated cultural concept. The world wasn’t always universally like this, there are many examples of non (or less) patriarchal societies throughout history, and we don’t know enough about prehistory to make any definitive judgement on humanity

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          What I meant is simply that the roman empire and the Catholic church forged ideological colonial basis of today, not that racism didn’t exist before

          True but that doesn’t fit with your argument as a precondition to being white

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          Norse are the Scandinavians

          I would say Northern Germanic but it might cause confusion with the country

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              That’s where pale white people come from, they killed dark white people across Europe as they spread

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                That’s where pale white people come from, they killed dark white people across Europe as they spread

                I think they were equal opportunity killers.

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                I honestly can’t tell if you’re trolling or just saying completely baseless stuff.

                Viking raiders didn’t care about the colour of your skin, not to mention the English are visually just as light in tone. Saying it’s the root of white supremacy is baseless.

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                  The Normans replaced the Britons who were darker

                  The Welsh are the only dark people left on the Isles and even they aren’t homogeneous in that anymore

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                dark white people

                Go the fuck outside

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        I don’t know what you define as that demographic, but what I said is just the truth. The culture in Italy is very mixed and different between regions, but racism, both cultural and structural, is rampant, even between Italians of the north and south

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        i dont know? i mean my skin isn’t white. i have a darker shade complexion than a “white” person. somewhat similar to someone from a med/middle eastern country.

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          Us census would say Mediterranean and Middle Eastern are white.

          White seems to be translating to “those whose ancestors we actually teach about in the west” and then the rest.

          So Mexicans are white because Spain decided to force them into history.

          We later learned this lesson and rather than invading, we shipped the people over to us for the next big conquest…

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    Well I actually laughed aloud at this on the train. I’m pretty much generic white looking, but have wondered if my resume ever got treated differently for the very Italian last name.

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      I have a very Italian full name and definitely got treated differently when I was younger. Growing up in a rural area, many of my teachers would ask me to translate Spanish for them. Oh boy.

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        Grew up east coast city, so never got that stuff. Not to my face anyway. Had one or two grade school teachers who were awful towards the south american and asian kids who didn’t speak any english.

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    Well, he wasn’t shot, choked to death, or mangled in the back of a police van at the time of arrest, so that’s already a win for him.

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    Whiteness won’t help here, this dude attacked the owner class. He’s going to be smeared then locked up for the rest of his life.

    What remains to be seen now is whether he gets better medical care in prison than he did via publicly available insurance.

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    It’s so ridiculous, too. As far as I can tell, he was arrested, because his clothes looked superficially similar to the person who shot the CEO, but if you spend five seconds comparing the security camera images, it’s pretty obvious that none of the clothing items actually match. If they hole him up based on this evidence, that’s embarrassing.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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      Not even just the clothing. I mean, you can change clothes, and lighting can affect colors pretty wildly (see: white/gold or blue/black dress). I don’t think anyone can change the shape of their face, grow a unibrow, and get a darker complexion in the span of 3 days, though.

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      Are you forgetting the silenced pistol and fake ID they found on him?

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        The pistol, ID, and manifesto that anybody on the run would’ve ditched in New York and could have well been in the hands of the police to be planted on whoever they saw fit?

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    Took me a second to puzzle this out…

    Just in case any of my fellow Europeans need an extra nudge in the right direction, this is relating to the guy who has been arrested for shooting the healthcare CEO, and nothing to do with people in Italy.

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      well yeah, mediterraneans like Italians and Moroccans don’t count as white in europe.

      EDIT : People are thinking that this is being racist against people, wheras it’s 60% satirical, 40% pointing out problematic perceptions of race.

      EDIT2 : updated text and information :

      https://lemmy.world/comment/13904300

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        France also borders the Mediterranean, so I don’t think you know what you’re talking about

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          So, the idea is more in the way race is actually percieved, and how unjust it is, and in the people who are usually regarded outside the “desirable” label try to fit into it, while only recieving partial recognition.

          “European” is usually used to indicate positive aspects, and people from greater europe usually enjoy claiming that origin to label themselves with the positive aspects that come with it.

          Although when you look at attitudes in europe, it’s more fragmented and nuanced, with many additional barriers and classifications. For example, PIIGS :

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIGS_(economics)

          Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain (And Ireland) are accepted as european, but with the idea that they are not as deserving of the criteria due to economic troubles. This marks a cultural two tier european perception within europe, with places like Germany looking down on Spain or Italy. Astute readers may mark that all these countries (except ireland) are mediterranian, and racism against the Irish has its own history.

          This also happens to eastern europe :

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_enlargement_of_the_European_Union

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_enlargement_of_the_European_Union

          Each wave coming with it’s own conservative scaremongering of immigration (despite a lot of needed professionals of high quality and work ethic migrating from said countries) and racist BS. Thus, someone from Poland or Romania are seen as “european” but with a large asterisk.

          When those people try to claim the “white” or “european” indicator to take advantage of the positive perception, it feels like they are trying to claim to be something that they are partially gatekept outside of.

          Of course, there are noble aspects to people and zones all over the world. This is all silly and irritating and basically racist.

          However, I personally find it stupid when people who are about to be marginalised try to claim in group status by the in group that doesn’t 100% support them. They are trying to fit into the in group to further their own agenda, instead of advocating for a non in-group/out-group status.

          Hence, the joke that Mediterranian countries like italy or morocco. Because the kinds of itallians that are trying to bust their ass to seem “white” would take offence to being painted with the same brush as “africans”. They quickly forget that the Roman empire spread all over the middle east and north africa, and those parts currently seen as “undesirable” were a valid part of the empire.

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    It is and always has been a class war. The owners love us squabbling over skin color.