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Originally posted by IvySpice
To a certain extent this happens, but there's a reason. To a large extent white people can "pass" into the general population. New groups arrived (Irish; Italian; etc.) and were hated at first, but after a while they blended in with the older groups of white people and were granted the privileges accorded to whites in general.
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Ooh, there's so much more I want to say about this, but I don't want to turn this into another GC race war. But I will say this (and then I'm out, cause I don't even get SL up here!): it's this kind of passing, this kind of "whitewashing" of history that allows racial intolerance to flourish.