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Re:US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys... by peyton on Thursday July 09, 2026 @10:33AM (#48846558)
They are white [1].

[1]: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21211671-1997-revisi...

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Re:US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys... by graemep on Thursday July 09, 2026 @11:01AM (#48847095)
They certainly look white to me.

Are Spanish people white or Hispanic according to those definitions?

'Original peoples' is an interesting phrase. Neanderthals? Beaker people?

A single category for everyone from Pakistanis to Japanese is weird.

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Re:US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys... by ivell on Thursday July 09, 2026 @11:08AM (#48847221)
I think they meant Caucasian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_race

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Re:US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys... by xorcist on Thursday July 09, 2026 @12:19PM (#48848392)
> Introduced in the 1780s by members of the Göttingen school of history, the term denoted one of three purported major races of humans: Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and Negroid

Sounds totally legit.

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Re:US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys... by graemep on Thursday July 09, 2026 @02:01PM (#48850005)
Caucasian includes South Asians and some East Africans according to that definition.
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Re:US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys... by tehjoker on Thursday July 09, 2026 @02:20PM (#48850284)
Drones fly over Gaza all the time, scaring the shit out of people and sometimes murdering them senselessly. They have done this over many countries.
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