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Rukshana Afia's avatar

True but notice how the category 'white' has expanded and now includes eg Israeli lives (if Jewish) , many citizens of poor countries if ruled by appropriate US backed dictators , some Europeans etc. Non-white lives are beginning to include almost everyone else and certainly has very little if any relation to skin hue .

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Jack Horner's avatar

Oh, I have. Whiteness was expanded to include the middle and even lower classes (whose skin would unavoidably be exposed to the sun), then -shock, horror - to peoples like the Irish... basically, expanding as it needed footsoldiers and supporters.

You've got to admit though, those Isrealis don't particularly look like the Semites at the pointy end of White Phosphorous Bombs.

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