Which in of itself is actually the real issue. People with more power and weapons and had “god” on their side, made up the idea of whiteness, and then created an “other” that gave then carte blanche to stores that group.
Pseudoscience helped reinforce this “authority”, and it still exists to this day.
Remember folks, race isn’t real. Europeans made it up.
protist@mander.xyz 5 months ago
As if that made a difference when the people being demonized were Italian or Irish. Immigrants have always been used as scapegoats in the US to divide the workers my class, even when they were white
PunnyName@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Those groups were only “white” when “colored” people became the scapegoat. White supremacists still continue to shift the spectrum to treat their own better than “the other”.