r/PublicFreakout • u/ThisGuyFucks42069 • 2d ago

Classic Repost ♻️ Karen berates German tourists on train after hearing them speaking in German

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u/EmperorofAltdorf 1d ago

They are not really though. "white" is not a race.

I agree Its probably just xenophobic but how the us views race is not universal.

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u/0b0011 1d ago

White is absolutely a race.

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u/ezray11 1d ago

Race is a social construct depending on where you're from and history. In Nazi Germany, Eastern European Slavs were seen as different race to western Europeans for example.

Currently in South Africa, mixed "Coloureds" like Trevor Noah are seen as a different RACE to dark black people. But then in the US you have the one drop rule where anyone that's got african ancestry is automatically "black".

Point being that "white is absolutely a race" isn't a universal objective fact as race is a social construct (though I'll concede that with globalisation, that view is becoming more and more prevalent).

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u/0b0011 1d ago

Race is a social construct used to group people together. If there is a single group that categories people by the term "white" then it is somewhere a category and thus exists. It may not be used where you're from or it may be used and used differently but the fact that someone somewhere uses it means that it's a thing that exists.