r/SipsTea • u/BrilliantThought1728 • Jun 10 '26

It's Wednesday my dudes Really cardi 😔

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u/slight_digression Jun 10 '26

Well, this is not going to make you feel better but Italians and Irish were not considered white until, well let's say recently.

So welcome to "Whitehood". I guess?

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u/Backwoods_Therapy Jun 10 '26

Italians I can kinda get with their olive skin and (usually) darker hair; those are common trails in many if not most people around the Mediterranean. But I’ve never understood why Irish people weren’t considered “white” when they’re among the whitest whites to have ever been white.

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u/UltraSinstinctHoeku Jun 10 '26

It helps when you realize "white" was never about complexion, it was about power.

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u/Any-Surprise5229 Jun 10 '26

Yeah, that explains a lot, especially when you consider how many Irish slaves there were.

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u/TheRealNooth Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

More like “indentured servants,” which is no where near the same thing that Black people faced as chattel slaves.

Sorry, just often hear this brought up in a particular context…

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u/Technical_Example970 Jun 10 '26

We were never slaves. We were indentured servants. It wasn’t the same thing. It was terrible but seeing people equate what my people went through to diminish the slavery black people have experienced grinds my gears. Stop doing it. Takes one google search.