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r/ShitPoliticsSays • u/Trendmade • May 30 '25
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It's incredible how completely ignorant they are of even racial demographics in different parts of the world.
74 u/FortunateHominid May 30 '25 Or globally. They don't realize only 10%-16% of the global population is "white". That's with some estimates even lower (below 10%). 37 u/AnHonestConvert White May 30 '25 you don’t have to say "white" like it’s not real. White is real. And it’s a proper noun. 1 u/MachineMan718 Jun 02 '25 The concept of white being all pale Europeans is a relatively recent concept. It used to be just the English (and Scots, sometimes) were “white”. Irish were excluded from that list, as well as Welsh, Italians, and Slavs. 2 u/AnHonestConvert White Jun 02 '25 By recent you mean since the 1700s? That doesn’t invalidate the identity, anyway. 1 u/MachineMan718 Jun 02 '25 Irish were considered separate from “the white race” well into the early 20th century. And yes, 1700s is recent compared to the many thousands of years of tribalism.
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Or globally. They don't realize only 10%-16% of the global population is "white". That's with some estimates even lower (below 10%).
37 u/AnHonestConvert White May 30 '25 you don’t have to say "white" like it’s not real. White is real. And it’s a proper noun. 1 u/MachineMan718 Jun 02 '25 The concept of white being all pale Europeans is a relatively recent concept. It used to be just the English (and Scots, sometimes) were “white”. Irish were excluded from that list, as well as Welsh, Italians, and Slavs. 2 u/AnHonestConvert White Jun 02 '25 By recent you mean since the 1700s? That doesn’t invalidate the identity, anyway. 1 u/MachineMan718 Jun 02 '25 Irish were considered separate from “the white race” well into the early 20th century. And yes, 1700s is recent compared to the many thousands of years of tribalism.
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you don’t have to say "white" like it’s not real. White is real. And it’s a proper noun.
1 u/MachineMan718 Jun 02 '25 The concept of white being all pale Europeans is a relatively recent concept. It used to be just the English (and Scots, sometimes) were “white”. Irish were excluded from that list, as well as Welsh, Italians, and Slavs. 2 u/AnHonestConvert White Jun 02 '25 By recent you mean since the 1700s? That doesn’t invalidate the identity, anyway. 1 u/MachineMan718 Jun 02 '25 Irish were considered separate from “the white race” well into the early 20th century. And yes, 1700s is recent compared to the many thousands of years of tribalism.
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The concept of white being all pale Europeans is a relatively recent concept. It used to be just the English (and Scots, sometimes) were “white”.
Irish were excluded from that list, as well as Welsh, Italians, and Slavs.
2 u/AnHonestConvert White Jun 02 '25 By recent you mean since the 1700s? That doesn’t invalidate the identity, anyway. 1 u/MachineMan718 Jun 02 '25 Irish were considered separate from “the white race” well into the early 20th century. And yes, 1700s is recent compared to the many thousands of years of tribalism.
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By recent you mean since the 1700s?
That doesn’t invalidate the identity, anyway.
1 u/MachineMan718 Jun 02 '25 Irish were considered separate from “the white race” well into the early 20th century. And yes, 1700s is recent compared to the many thousands of years of tribalism.
Irish were considered separate from “the white race” well into the early 20th century.
And yes, 1700s is recent compared to the many thousands of years of tribalism.
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u/babno May 30 '25
It's incredible how completely ignorant they are of even racial demographics in different parts of the world.