quietxdream asked: Hi there! So I'm having a discussion with someone about reverse racism and how they think it's a thing and they used WW2 as an example of whites being oppressed and tortured and killed, massacred, raped and basically discriminated against because they were white... Is their point valid? Because the ignorance they are spilling is so unbelievable it's actually laughable!

You have to understand the difference between the white race and the system of whiteness. Whiteness has little to nothing to do with your actual race. Whiteness is the contextual condition of being identified as white. It is a categorization that shapes and is shaped by white privilege and white supremacy. In the context of WWII Germany, Jewish people were not privy to whiteness. Jewish people were discriminated against because they were white. They were discriminated against because they were Jewish. The very act of separating white Germans and German Jews into separate classes necessitates German Jews not being considered white.

Most current contexts would include white Jews within a system of whiteness.

-Dion