• zeekaran@sopuli.xyz
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    9 months ago

    Why are they always white nationalists? What is it always that the douche who is loud about his Irish heritage ends up being a racist asshole?

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      9 months ago

      They’re the people who, when filling out a form asking for their ethnicity, cross out all the options and write in “American.” It’s been many years, but I did read several papers on this issue when I was working with semiotics. It’s a bigger phenomenon in the South (“American by birth, Southern by the grace of god”) and the Midwest.

      And I didn’t mean to imply that they were all racists, just that there’s a known correlation that has been studied by sociologists. I also didn’t mean to imply that they’re the only racists. Hell, I’ve been to Boston…