The reasons the insults are bad are because 2 reasons, 1. When making an insult you have to personalize it, you can’t do this with “white” people because “white” doesn’t exist. This is why Fredo and Ginny work so viciously with Italians. Or simply saying Ooga Booga to Africans because it mocks their tribal association. 2. There’s no catchiness to the phrases, they’re just throwing shit on a wall to see what sticks. Insults are particularly effective in 2 capacities, short and sweet or long and mocking.
'White' is an American construct used chiefly to distinguish European from non-European.
In a European context it's an almost useless term because it means putting Celts, Anglos, Germanics, Danes, Nords, Finns, Meds, Slavs, Spaniards, Italians, Romanians, and even the half the Turks, hell the fucking IRANIANS look 'white' if you want to make it purely about skin colour - something no European would do, and until recently, no American, either - but Americans keep widening the definition of white, because, after all, 'white' is just a colour.
And that's why there's no good insult for 'white'. It's simply not specific enough.
The left know what they mean when they say 'white', though. They mean Anglo-Saxon.
The reasons the insults are bad are because 2 reasons, 1. When making an insult you have to personalize it, you can’t do this with “white” people because “white” doesn’t exist. This is why Fredo and Ginny work so viciously with Italians. Or simply saying Ooga Booga to Africans because it mocks their tribal association. 2. There’s no catchiness to the phrases, they’re just throwing shit on a wall to see what sticks. Insults are particularly effective in 2 capacities, short and sweet or long and mocking.
He's right, though.
'White' is an American construct used chiefly to distinguish European from non-European.
In a European context it's an almost useless term because it means putting Celts, Anglos, Germanics, Danes, Nords, Finns, Meds, Slavs, Spaniards, Italians, Romanians, and even the half the Turks, hell the fucking IRANIANS look 'white' if you want to make it purely about skin colour - something no European would do, and until recently, no American, either - but Americans keep widening the definition of white, because, after all, 'white' is just a colour.
And that's why there's no good insult for 'white'. It's simply not specific enough.
The left know what they mean when they say 'white', though. They mean Anglo-Saxon.
White is an American construct because a lot of European descended Americans have no racial identity.