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In reply to the discussion: I fucking hate White People [View all]Caliman73
(11,767 posts)I think we are talking past each other, and that we agree on the issue.
The main point and what is discussed in the video I attached to my original post is that White was invented for a very specific reason. While, as you say, Brown and Black are just as arbitrary, contrived, and do not define anyone precisely; White carries a power and significance that the other two labels do not. The concept of White has been used to exclude and oppress. It could well have been any other term. Take the term Caucasian, derived from the Caucasus region of Eurasia. The guy who applied it to the discussion of racial identification, did so because a skull he discovered there was believed to be his most prized possession with him thinking it to be the most beautiful and perfect skull therefore, having to belong to a superior race of people (White of course).
There are differences in culture, religion, etc... but the problem is when certain traits, practices, features, and hues of skin are valued while others are devalued.