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55 Ways White People Say ‘White People’ Without Actually Saying ‘White People’ [Very Smart Brothas]

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[gingicat]

They left out “colonizers”

[arlie]

Chunks of that list have obvious meanings that include people of all races.

In a universe where being categorized as white did not prove that I was racist, I would believe that my use of most of these terms did not exclude black, asian, native or "hispanic" people. Last I heard, there were "Americans" of all those racial categories (term 1). Black americans are famous for their Christian religiosity (term 10). Locally Hispanic people are over-represented among essential workers (term 52), as any bloody fool can see from the covid statitics.

The common euphemism for "white people" that I encounter these days is "Northern European" - used particularly by and of Americans; Europe itself has a division into weak, profiligate economies and stronger ones, that roughly follows meditteranean vs north-of-mediteranean lines, so that term means somethign else there. But Americans who actually want to say "Northern European" generally say "Scandinavian", or "German", or "Slavic" - whatever best fits.

It's not even on the list.

But what would I know? I'm the child of the daughter of British immigrants on one side, and Russian Jews on the other. Thus infinitely and unatoneably racist.