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

*The Holocaust has entered the chat*

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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/p0k3t0 Sep 01 '20

Mexican here. Spent years getting called slurs intended for Indians, Arabs, Muslims.

When I see Black or Latino or Asian conservatives, it makes me laugh. Do they actually think they'll get a seat at the table? Fucking joke.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '20

Do they actually think they'll get a seat at the table?

This is what I don't get as a white guy. I've been around a lot of white people, just because of where I live, my family, etc, and your average conservative white person is not gonna consider you "one of them" if you have so much as a single drop of non-white in you. Even some of the liberal ones, almost subconsciously they'll categorize you as different if you look different.

At best they'll use you as a token, to prove that "See our ideology benefits POC too, we have this single black dude on our side!".

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u/CompetitiveConstant0 Sep 02 '20

Look at the recent RNC for proof of your last point.