One thing I wish wasn’t controversial is that mafia in media is often extemly xenophobic Or saying that alot of Italian steryotpes are actually harmful Alot of people refuse to see racism/xenophobia outside of skincolor, or refuse to see nuance I could go on for days about specifically anti Italian xenophobia, mafia, ww2 and American capitalism (specifically Uncle Sam) (just some thoughts tied to the recent media and racism/xenophobia talk, feel free to just ignore this/g)
Yeah but Italians are white people and you can’t be racist or have bigoted stereotypes about white people. (huge sarcasm)
🎀💖 made a post about this about two weeks ago that I’ll repost in its entirely here;
It’s so funny that with all the emphasis on progressive language and weeding slurs and language based on hate out of our everyday vocabulary–
And people are still completely okay saying “wife beater” (referring to the A-line shirt) despite the term being rooted in anti-italian and general anti-immigrant sentiment during a time where Italian, Irish and other immigrants to the US were consider not to be “white” in the way we use the term today.
I’m not saying anyone should stop using this term necessarily but like, just something to think about when we talk about how and when we decide that a term is harmful to a group of people.
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