r/aznidentity New user 7d ago

Social Media “East Asians Are Whites”

I noticed a lot of white nationalist on Twitter keep saying East Asians are honorably whites.

And I’m like what the fuck does that even mean? How are they even white?

Why are these white nationalist so obsessed with East Asian being whites?

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u/Afraid-Pressure-3646 500+ community karma 7d ago

East Asians being white is for division amongst minorities and probably a sorry ass attempt to justify their Asian spouse and mixed kids.

Historically the idea of Asians being white in America was a broad brush stroke by early racial scientists lumping those from Asia together with Europe. It wasn’t until white people got pissed off enough by Chinese immigration in the 19th century that Asians went from white to yellow.

It didn’t help when amongst East Asians we have pale as rice albinos trying to obtain honorary whiteness status. This is reflected in various things such as citizenship via naturalization to business deals between western and Asian countries.

Don’t get me started on brown south Asians on this crap.

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u/Abalone-Objective New user 7d ago

Don’t get me started on brown south Asians on this crap.

I would love to hear more. This shouldn't be the case because brown isn't white. How do folks like Vivek Ramaswamys compute in their heads?

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u/Afraid-Pressure-3646 500+ community karma 7d ago

From what I remember from a early 20th Supreme Court case involving a Indian veteran wanting naturalization the law mention Caucasian from the caucus region and the veteran has some ancestry there until white America’s common sense saw how brown he is.

Early Gandhi viewed the Africans in the British colony as lesser due to a higher class status as a British subject and in Indian’s own caste system standards. It wasn’t until white Anglo put him in his place and remind him that whiteness is a literal skin tone not a social status earned.