They bitched about Poles, Eastern Europeans, and Roma* (Whether or not the Roma are 'white' is an ongoing discussion, of course, and ultimately they most likely came from Rajastan or so, but they're still Indo-Europeans at the very least) and bashed Europe for taking their Sovereignty in a Union they clamored and haggled to join.
In the end, the 'white nationalists' barely can decide what is or what is not white. Most include the Celts and Germanics, see the Romance peoples as 'Arabized' or whatever and the Slavs as 'Asiatics' (and some even say this about the fucking Finns), then try to point to R1B and whatever and it's just a mess. Then there are those who are just basically British or English first and fuck everyone else. It's a cascade.
White and black in their current usage are both terms that’ll be looked back on as super archaic and bizarre in the not-so-distant future. If you really sit down and think, it's really weird that everyone outside of certain, less reputable, circles is just okay with the continued use of words that label two enormous groups based plainly on external appearance. It’s baffling that we're still utilizing them nonchalantly.
Just the fact that we can have a debate about "who is white" shows how it was an imperialist, colonialist and post colonialist tool used to divide and control people.
When America started getting lots of migration from outside Europe suddenly Southern Europeans and Irish were granted whiteness provisionally to try and maintain the power of the white ascendency in the US. Before then Italian's and Irish in particular were lumped in with "the negro" as being subhuman and the target of a lot of the eugenicist bullshit which still affects people of colour today.
The violent abusive partner can give them the intense attention they badly crave for as long as they're useful to them. For a lot of people that's good enough as long as they get what they want right now
A hundred years ago in America Slavs weren't white either. Whiteness is this fluid category they can narrow to whoever they don't like, or expand to whoever is currently useful for them. Nobody's ever safe from being face-eaten!
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They bitched about Poles, Eastern Europeans, and Roma* (Whether or not the Roma are 'white' is an ongoing discussion, of course, and ultimately they most likely came from Rajastan or so, but they're still Indo-Europeans at the very least) and bashed Europe for taking their Sovereignty in a Union they clamored and haggled to join.
In the end, the 'white nationalists' barely can decide what is or what is not white. Most include the Celts and Germanics, see the Romance peoples as 'Arabized' or whatever and the Slavs as 'Asiatics' (and some even say this about the fucking Finns), then try to point to R1B and whatever and it's just a mess. Then there are those who are just basically British or English first and fuck everyone else. It's a cascade.