DiscussionWoke straight guy on FB: "We need to listen to Radical Islam."

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[–]dilsencySame-sex community 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I know race/ethnicity is a concept that changes depending on who/where you ask, but... how are middle eastern people white? You'd be able to tell the difference between a say British man and an Iranian man quite easily.

[–]Athelhilda4Questioning 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Both Europeans and Middle Easterners both descend from the Proto-Indo-Europeans.

[–]dilsencySame-sex community 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Sure. But middle eastern people will face prejudice in say Germany whereas people from other Northwestern European countries wouldn't. I don't see these definitions correlating with how racism is actually practiced.

[–]kwallio 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Many of the so-called middle easterners in Europe are actually south asian, Afghan and Pakistani. They are not arabs.

ETA - there might be some legitimate arab refugees from Syria etc in the mix but I think in the last wave of refugees going to Europe they were vastly outnumbered by anyone who looked vaguely middle eastern going to Europe and saying they were Syrian but had lost their papers.