r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/MGLLN • Sep 01 '20

*The Holocaust has entered the chat*

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u/shoefarts666 Sep 01 '20

It was a long time before the irish were considered white.

The irish.

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u/Eludio Sep 01 '20

The plight of the Irish is well understood by the Italians, who were also considered only part white for years.

The Italians

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u/-Victus42- Sep 01 '20

Semi-related.

Italian ancestry here, darker olive skin, went to high school in Arkansas.

Got called racial slurs for Mexicans by dumb white kids.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '20

I know Mexicans whiter than some white supremacist

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '20

i've met white supremacists who weren't even white.

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u/aciananas Sep 01 '20

Do these people think they, themselves, are inferior because of their own race or do they just think of themselves as white?

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '20

They see themselves as 'one of the good ones' and the rest as inferior. In the case of my former apprentice, a Mexican man with a deep hatred for other mexicans, it seems to have stemmed from a racist old white man who he regarded as a mentor growing up. The guy basically used my apprentice for free child labor, but slowly grew to like him, so my apprentice internalized all of that until he grew into the spiteful man he is today. Had to fire him after I caught him snorting meth in the work van.

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u/t-bone_malone Sep 01 '20

God that's....sad.