Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned
by flowerlad on Thursday June 29, 2023 @03:39PM
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Good question. There is no consensus on who is considered white. Nazis considered Jews to be a separate and inferior race. At one point in the US, Italians were not considered white. Irish, Greeks and Poles were not considered white at some point, and were discriminated against in the US. “No Irish need apply” (NINA) signs were common at one point in history.
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Re:Affirmative action at US colleges has been banned
by MrOwnPut on Thursday June 29, 2023 @08:46PM
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It's not they were considered "not white", that's marxist like thinking dividing amongst visual attributes instead of class.
They were discriminated against because they were considered lesser genetically/socially/etc...
The skin color has little to do with it other than being a phenotype visualizing the genetics that a group hates.
As you pointed out there are plenty of groups (Irish, Italian, etc.) where that phenotype (high melanin) doesn't exist, but the hate and judgement still does...