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#21: March 9, 2017

Knowledge Fight

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The History of Whiteness

The one thing that white people have never given away is whiteness. Nobody wants it. Whiteness has always been defined as in contrast to other things, which is why there are large groups of people who are like, Oh, yeah, Jews, your skin is white, but you're not white enough. That sort of thing is deeply entrenched in the history of the concept of whiteness.

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