jeffw@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 month agoAnne Coulter attacks Kamala Harris’s racial identity as not ‘foundational Black’www.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up1253arrow-down111
arrow-up1242arrow-down1external-linkAnne Coulter attacks Kamala Harris’s racial identity as not ‘foundational Black’www.independent.co.ukjeffw@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square51fedilink
minus-squareAsafum@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up38·1 month agoWtf is her heritage? If she’s not British she’s not foundational white either. We were all “something else” if you’re in America. My ancestors were “swarthy” treated as subhuman. Now I can say I’m white and no one blinks an eye.
minus-squareMadison420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·1 month agoIt’s more complicated than that. They’re looking for countries that didn’t ever have a Hapsburg in control those that did not will always be less white than the ones with Medicis in power. It’s all very weird and stupid.
Wtf is her heritage? If she’s not British she’s not foundational white either.
We were all “something else” if you’re in America. My ancestors were “swarthy” treated as subhuman. Now I can say I’m white and no one blinks an eye.
It’s more complicated than that. They’re looking for countries that didn’t ever have a Hapsburg in control those that did not will always be less white than the ones with Medicis in power. It’s all very weird and stupid.