• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    16 days ago

    I think a distinction can be made between racism and colorism. Racism can be applied to people with white passing complexion under the certain contexts and in certain historical moments, but colorism is entirely visual and is based solely on how people look.

    Light skin is a universal privilege that applies in all white supremacist society and can never be taken away, even when racist sentiments against light-skinned ethnicities flares up. It’s like you say, they can always just quietly pretend to be Anglo. That said, light skin isn’t a universal protection either. Even if it’s always a privilege to be able to hide, it’s not like light skin stopped the Nazis.

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      16 days ago

      Sure racism and colorism is a conversation for non white people. You’re talking about European Jewish people, they are white and that doesn’t go away because of their opinions on Zionism

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          16 days ago

          You sound like a Zionist.

          Islamophobia exists, do you think that means an ethnic German convert to Islam isn’t white?

          Europeans are white, Ashkenazi Jews are Europeans, and are white. They weren’t always considered white by white people, like Italians and Irish people, but now they are firmly cemented in their whiteness, their strongest allies and protectors are non Jewish white people who are also white supremacists.

          This is obvious if you look at the white Jewish people calling Ethiopian Jews anti Black slurs, making them second class citizens, and perpetuating systemic violence against them in the so called Jewish state. Europeans Jews literally run a white supremacist settler colony, what are you on about

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                  15 days ago

                  How does an anti-Zionist Jew walk around and be misidentified as non-white? You’re talking about other Jews accusing them of antisemitism for not being Zionists, is this your example of a racist attack against them for somehow exiting their position as white people?

                  No, anti-Zionist Ashkenazi Jews still walk around with all the privilege of every other white person. Until the entire Jewish collective is removed from whiteness wholesale, there is no distinguishing one as white and one as not white. Whiteness is a power dynamic defined by power over non white people, which every Ashkenazi Jew has regardless of their personal beliefs. There may be infighting among the Jewish community about Zionism but that is irrelevant to the concept of whiteness, privilege, and power over non white people