[hcles]

> I wonder how much it'd shock Eugene if someone pointed it out to him that, in American racial discourse, Irish and Italian folk were once considered "not white."

The title of his article is "How the Asians became white" which as Eugene pointed out in the comments, is an allusion to "How the Irish Became White," by Noel Ignatiev.

So it wouldn't shock him at all, that's his point.