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It’s true that the boundaries of whiteness are fuzzy, but I feel like you’re mincing words. Am I to take it that Hutu perpetrators of genocide against the Tutsi people are white nationalists? It’s a common misconception that you can define words however you like. I think in this century, few would consider Mezrahi Jews to be white. Is Drake a white nationalist? He is a Jew who believes in “the right and need of a Jewish state [Israel],” after all. He also says quite a few things in that article I wouldn’t expect of a white nationalist at all – so unexpected indeed that I’m struggling to apply the label to him.
Zionism is ethno-religious nationalism. It’s more religious than ethno to be frank. But either way, it’s definitely not white nationalism. I can admit that race is a social construct, but people extrapolate way too much from its non-existence to get to ludicrous ideas like whiteness is 100% defined by power structures just because that pattern matches well with what Europeans, Australians, Canadians, and Americans see every day. The quasi ethnic group of Jews is not primarily “white,” by the most ordinary meaning of “white”: when people look at a Mezrahi Jew, “white” is not a label they will usually think to apply. And most definitely nobody is calling a powerful and influential man like Drake “white.”
Maybe in 150 years you’ll be right, the meaning of “white” will have shifted so much. But it is still 2024.
It’s true that the boundaries of whiteness are fuzzy, but I feel like you’re mincing words. Am I to take it that Hutu perpetrators of genocide against the Tutsi people are white nationalists? It’s a common misconception that you can define words however you like. I think in this century, few would consider Mezrahi Jews to be white. Is Drake a white nationalist? He is a Jew who believes in “the right and need of a Jewish state [Israel],” after all. He also says quite a few things in that article I wouldn’t expect of a white nationalist at all – so unexpected indeed that I’m struggling to apply the label to him.
Zionism is ethno-religious nationalism. It’s more religious than ethno to be frank. But either way, it’s definitely not white nationalism. I can admit that race is a social construct, but people extrapolate way too much from its non-existence to get to ludicrous ideas like whiteness is 100% defined by power structures just because that pattern matches well with what Europeans, Australians, Canadians, and Americans see every day. The quasi ethnic group of Jews is not primarily “white,” by the most ordinary meaning of “white”: when people look at a Mezrahi Jew, “white” is not a label they will usually think to apply. And most definitely nobody is calling a powerful and influential man like Drake “white.”
Maybe in 150 years you’ll be right, the meaning of “white” will have shifted so much. But it is still 2024.
Point taken.