[ExI] Update on the Hawaiian observatory shutdown

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 11:13 PM SR Ballard <sen.otaku at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a question.
>
> I think whites are trying to get brown points, that is appear less white
> by championing separatist and racist movements by non-whites. Media and
> many professors now insinuate it's shameful or at least suspicious to be
> white, and many react in this way. Also some whites hate elite white
> pursuits, like pure science, so there is a class dimension to some of the
> opposition. People are weird.
>
>
> I do see people doing what you’re saying, but my question is, who is white?
>
> Am I white if I am 1/4 Peruvian (including mostly native descent, not
> Spaniard)? What if I have cousins with reservation cards (through blood,
> from our common ancestor)? What if my family is Jewish, and I mean REALLY
> Jewish, like a lot of my family died in the Holocaust kind of Jewish?
>
> Am I white?
>

### It all depends on who you hang out with and who wants your stuff. If
you hang out with people who get called "stupid ass white" while driving
through Chicago, like me, then chances are you are going to be treated as
white, even if you are half black (like my ex brother-in-law). If a bunch
of white people want to steal your stuff, you will be a kike, or a spic. If
a bunch of non-whites want your stuff, they may call you a cracker and
won't be interested in the details of your descent.

While there is a genetic basis to race as a biological notion, the social
constructions of race and ethnicity have a lot to do with building
coalitions for and against, usually with the intent to take from whoever
ends up being too weak to fight back.

It's a cruel world out there, among humans.
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