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In reply to the discussion: Liberal Racism: 25 Things I Learned After I Wrote About ISIS and White Racism at the Daily Kos [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)"White" isn't an ethnic group but several different ethnic groups with their own cultures and histories (the fabled "melting pot" aside). The culture and history of the descendants of 19th century Russian and Polish immigrants in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town is very different to the culture and history of the descendants of 17th century colonists in New England or Virginia or the culture and history of the descendants of Forty-Niners and Okies in California. You can't really treat all white people as interchangeable. And some white American cultures are problematic; the cultural history of the South, for instance, is one of the legacy of racism and white supremacy and the myth of the "Lost Cause" of the Confederacy. That isn't all that it is, but it's a very significant part of it; the North doesn't get a pass, though, considering that it was Southern slave labour and Southern cotton that funded the Industrial Revolution.