That's basically right. "Lesser white" or "off white". Whites have not had, do not have, and will not have, any sort of racial solidarity. I'm not very old, and I remember a time when polish discrimination wasn't really unheard of.
There are people alive and well today that are utterly shocked that bigotry against eastern Europeans and Eastern Orthodox Christians has all but fucking evaporated.
It sounds like they were considered "White" but not "our kind of White".
That's basically right. "Lesser white" or "off white". Whites have not had, do not have, and will not have, any sort of racial solidarity. I'm not very old, and I remember a time when polish discrimination wasn't really unheard of.
There are people alive and well today that are utterly shocked that bigotry against eastern Europeans and Eastern Orthodox Christians has all but fucking evaporated.