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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 24-Mar-2022 01:21:27 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
   I think people say "Caucasian" when they mean "white" because "white" sounds racist and arbitrary?
   
   By saying "Caucasian" they instead tie themselves to original 18th and 19th century phrenology-level pseudo-scientific racism, which is even worse.
   • 🦀🦍≢ (carcinopithecus@x0r.be)'s status on Thursday, 24-Mar-2022 02:39:11 UTC 🦀🦍≢

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     @clacke boosting this from the rooftops

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   • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 24-Mar-2022 09:40:46 UTC Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @clacke And like the other pseudo-ethnological terms they have it also really feels like Americans being blatantly uncultured about Europe.
     
     At least to me Caucasian should be just a vague demonym for people in the Caucasus region which is a part of the limit between Europe and Asia.
     And it really feels stupid when then they proceed to put people from this very region outside of the US definition of Caucasian because what they mostly mean is racially from West Europe with excluding South-West Europe because those are just all "Hispanic" (~Spanish).
     
     And I'm saying this as one which is quite bad at Geography…
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