How could it have been a social construct? If there was nothing to latch onto, it wouldn't have worked, because you literally wouldn't have been able to tell the difference between white and black people, after these things were supposedly 'invented.' — The Great Whatever
mean, I went to university, I understand that this is what people are told. — The Great Whatever
OK, how does that mean that being of European ancestry was invented several hundred years ago? — The Great Whatever
Which is not the same thing as saying that whiteness is a social construct or was invented to justify colonialism and slavery. — The Great Whatever
The idea of whiteness is, not the pinkish skin pigment, or relative relatedness on the European continent. — Marchesk
White people are utterly delusional about race, and all minorities know this and exploit them for it, so their opinions don't matter on the subject. As for other minorities, I can't speak for them, but having listened to them all my life I think they're delusional too. — The Great Whatever
I think that race issues are mostly a pot of incoherent moral hysteria that have nothing to do with the issues people actually face and serve as a crutch to place a comic book ethical facade over daily life because the real world is too difficult to handle. — The Great Whatever
People would just think different things about dark people. — The Great Whatever
I think they never began or ended. It's because of vanity that white people focus on their own exploits -- being the best at being evil gives them some sort of weird masochistic hard-on, I swear. — The Great Whatever
Oh I'm sorry, I didn't realize that was all that counted. — The Great Whatever
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