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minus-squaremoakley@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35arrow-down1·4 days agoIt’s worth pointing out that Columbus Day was a way to combat anti-Italian racism in America. They put an Italian at the center of the American Myth to convince people that Italians were as American as any other white person.
minus-squareastutemural@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down1·4 days ago any other white person Bruh
minus-square🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·3 days agoliterally the point. they were rebranding Italians as white. they weren’t white before. same thing with Irish, who weren’t white, or Ashkenazi jews who also weren’t white.
minus-squareExistingConsumingSpace@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up27·4 days agoThat’s literally what the people behind it intended.
It’s worth pointing out that Columbus Day was a way to combat anti-Italian racism in America. They put an Italian at the center of the American Myth to convince people that Italians were as American as any other white person.
Bruh
literally the point.
they were rebranding Italians as white. they weren’t white before. same thing with Irish, who weren’t white, or Ashkenazi jews who also weren’t white.
That’s literally what the people behind it intended.