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by drewcoo 668 days ago
> And that's just describing inter-ethnic conflicts among White Americans

They're not white until they're normalized. Ben Franklin would not have considered Germans to be white.

https://qz.com/904933/a-history-of-american-anti-immigrant-b...

Similarly, Hispanic did not exist until the late 20th century. People who used to be white became Hispanic as the group was othered.