Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Another insulting article about Eastern European women, written by a "woman"" video.

@richbarrett6380 A lot of Europeans do not identify personally as "white." Obviously, in the US, I always mark "white" because of the political context. But as a Montenegrina, I don't personally think of myself as "white." Nor do my relatives. Occasionally, very rarely, I will use the term "white" when talking with family, and they always understand that as referring to someone other than us.
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Star Dust The whole race discourse has gotten so weird lately. Say, for example, Russians might say matter of factly that they're Eurasian, and don't mean anything by it. It's just a fact that so many people in Russia have Asian ancestry since the Middle Ages. So what? But some right-wing nationalists will assert their Eurasian ancestry like it makes them superior, and flaunt it, like a supremacist trope. It is so weird. "Hybrid vigor," the "decadent West," blah blah. So a simple fact is changed into another ugly discourse, by some people. And you can't tell offhand what a person's intention is.
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Star Dust James Baldwin described the phenomenon perfectly, when he moved to Europe a short time after the war. He met some of the worst racists he ever crossed paths with -- the kind of people who said the wrong side won the war -- but he never met a single white person. He finally came to the conclusion that "whites" only existed in the US. I know that no longer makes sense to people. When you read his nonfiction works, you see what he means.
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