Arab-Americans Tell Census, 'We're Not White'

[ingemann]

Most Arab-Americans are above average income, why should they benefit from affirmative action?

Also something like 2/3 of them are Christians (and a quarter Muslim) and they mostly come from the Levant.

So honestly if you people meet these people on the street





Would you think that they were people of colour?

[ingemann]

how come no one wants to be white any more?

Everyone in the intelligensia want to be a victim today (even White conservatives), the easiest way is to pretend you part of some poor persecuted minority and if you can't do that, pretend the group you belong to are one. 

[ingemann]

how come no one wants to be white any more?

I do have some white guilt over the privilege I enjoy as a white American, but I wouldn't trade my ethnicity away. It's hard enough living as a gay dude. I can't even imagine how hard it'd be to cope as a gay dude of color, or even a gay lady of color.

Here's the point, for some groups Jews and most Arab-Americans, who if we say they're not White, do look White. They can still enjoy all the privileges of Whiteness, as they're purely based on social norms.

[ingemann]

how come no one wants to be white any more?

Everyone in the intelligensia want to be a victim today (even White conservatives), the easiest way is to pretend you part of some poor persecuted minority and if you can't do that, pretend the group you belong to are one. 

I knew a student a year ahead of me in law school. He was an archconservative who claimed to be a "libertarian". He put up a plaque of his haplogroup to show that he was "oppressed" as a joke. The problem with the joke is that his haplogroup was indicative of the Vikings. Probably the one group that can't say there were oppressed.

True, though to be fair, they swore off the raping, pillaging and plundering a long time before the major powers of Europe and Asia did. While imperialism was in full swing in Darkest Africa and the British, French, Belgians and Portuguese were trying to wring as much rubber, copper and gold out of the place as they could, the Scandinavians were...I'm not really sure what they were doing. Probably making reindeer meatballs and putting furniture together.

Well it depend on period, if we talk about the early colonial era, the Swedish was doing their best to depopulate Germany, Poland and Denmark (around 1/3 of the population lost in each country) after they had helped the Poles depopulate Russia (40% population loss), but that one we can mostly blame on Poland, while Denmark was experimenting in creating efficient triangle trade.

If we go up the 19th century colonial expansion, we was mostly too busy industrialise, except for somwe Danish-German Wars.