It’s pretty funny how for a time, whiteness basically operated by Highlander rules. Japan, you have defeated Russia. You are now white and the Russians are Asian. Turks, you’re on thin ice. You had better not lose the next war.
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This is literally how the new zealanders approached the Maōri
aug 30, 2025, 10:52 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm strongly sensing the presence of Darwinian Survival-Of-The-Fittest theory here. This was the era when the stronger races were to vanquish the lesser ones, for the good of human progress.
aug 31, 2025, 6:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Read theory: direct.mit.edu/isec/article...
aug 30, 2025, 2:13 pm • 27 1 • view
International Security, hell yeah.
aug 30, 2025, 2:36 pm • 2 0 • view
When the Japanese went looking for funding for the war, they made the argument that "We're the REAL white race because we have a constitution and a Diet, while the Russians are just another Oriental despot."
aug 30, 2025, 2:36 pm • 28 0 • view
if you tried this on me in 2025, it would work
aug 30, 2025, 2:52 pm • 11 0 • view
it's relegation, like in soccer
aug 30, 2025, 2:16 pm • 14 0 • view
Austro-Hungarians, we're basically stuck with you but don't make us get creative in our disqualification process.
aug 30, 2025, 3:39 pm • 3 0 • view
Japan defeating Russia was utterly shocking to the racists (most people) at the time. I’m sure there was decades of soul searching before that poster came out .
aug 30, 2025, 2:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Came out in 1906, literally the year after the Russo-Japanese war.
aug 30, 2025, 2:35 pm • 11 0 • view
A central tenet of Francoism was that the colonial army is at war with Muslims in Morocco, Muslims and Jews are basically the same so we may as well be antisemitic
aug 30, 2025, 2:21 pm • 9 0 • view
Franco going for the reverse of "I'm not anti-Semitic, I only fear Jews" pedantry.
aug 30, 2025, 5:37 pm • 2 0 • view
Open the spreadsheets
aug 30, 2025, 10:53 pm • 0 0 • view
I mean, isn't that how we got Russian Nazi Nazis? they defeated the Aryans therefore they are the Aryans
aug 30, 2025, 3:16 pm • 0 0 • view
"hey what about us" "sorry Ethiopia we're not convinced Italy counted to begin with"
aug 30, 2025, 2:14 pm • 102 2 • view
There are actually, disturbingly late, British pop race science illustrations from magazines listing the Ethiopians as a subset of the white race!
aug 30, 2025, 2:20 pm • 59 1 • view
The Japanese and Taiwanese were white in apartheid SA because they were economically successful investors in the country
aug 30, 2025, 8:34 pm • 2 0 • view
I wonder how much this has to do with the fact that they were Christian pre-colonial
aug 30, 2025, 2:50 pm • 29 0 • view
Was it understood then that humans originated in that part of the world? Could also be related
aug 30, 2025, 3:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Human origins wouldn't be settled until well after WWII.
aug 30, 2025, 10:49 pm • 1 0 • view
They were Christian before large chunks of Europe were!
aug 30, 2025, 3:19 pm • 7 0 • view
They were the first of us, compared to them we're just Orth North
aug 31, 2025, 3:25 am • 0 0 • view
Don’t they have the Ark of the Covenant stashed somewhere?
aug 30, 2025, 3:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, and they also have a huge party over the discovery of the True Cross.
aug 30, 2025, 3:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Going to guess "entirely"
aug 30, 2025, 3:14 pm • 12 0 • view
As speakers of Semitic languages, Ethiopians were considered a few steps above everyone else south of the Sahara.
aug 30, 2025, 3:28 pm • 4 0 • view
And they're Christians, and they went to Europe every so often
aug 30, 2025, 10:52 pm • 3 0 • view
Ethiopia was more of a Russian bugbear tbh. The Romanovs were huge fans
aug 30, 2025, 3:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Just proves how racism, no matter the attempted "rational" justifications, is a load of irrational bunkum.
aug 30, 2025, 2:26 pm • 8 0 • view
Part of the "beauty" of racial categories not having any real genetic basis is that they can be changed when it's expedient.
aug 30, 2025, 2:37 pm • 7 0 • view