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.
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Date: 2020-11-29 06:03 pm (UTC)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.
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