1105: Whiteness
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/04/26
Whiteness is a judicial anachronism, not a phenotype: U.S. Naturalization Act (1790), Ozawa (1922), Thind (1923). There is no standard.
Were the Irish white enough?
Were the Italians white enough?
Were the Jewish white enough?
What shall we make of Coloured, Pardos (mulatos, cafuzos, caboclos), and Visible Minority?
To argue for special derogations or laudations seems like racialist faith-based essentialism, so whether “anti-racist” racialist logic or racist rationales, moral righteousness and ethical conduct isn’t in the ‘race.’ It’s in the individual.
It’s not inborn like height.
It’s grown like roses.
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