Are Muslim people from Bosnia white? What about Georgians, who live south of Russia in a country that has applied for EU membership? And what about Armenians and Azerbaijanis?
You wouldn’t believe how many people insist they are white. Some will violently oppose you if you dare to disagree. It has become a matter of great insecurity for some whether or not they are considered white. Even Iranians, who often look quite similar to brown Pakistanis, claim to be true Aryans—just “because.” Some even claim that blond Germans descended from these distinctly Arab-looking Iranians.
The anonymity of the internet has given many a brown man the opportunity to pose as white online, leading to a whole new category of mental illness I call “racial dysphoria.” Isn’t it interesting that these racially dysphoric individuals all insist white people are superior and that being considered brown is shameful? Take it from the brown people who insist they are superior enough to be called white. Perhaps our general shoulder-shrugging attitude toward this freely awarded acclaim of supremacy makes brown people even more anxious.
But the true test of who’s really white lies in the acceptance of guilt: Are you a racist? Do you feel guilty for colonialism? Will you atone for the sins of slavery? Will you pay reparations? Will you throw your working class under the bus for all of it while feeling smug about being better educated? Will you accept infinite mass immigration into your country? Will you submit to Islam? Will you look the other way when migrants commit mass gang rapes of your daughters in broad daylight, as part of industrial-scale war crimes committed against your race?
Considering these requirements, perhaps we should stick with American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin’s definition. He called most Europeans “of a swarthy complexion.” He considered only Saxon Germans and English people “white”—i.e., Anglo-Saxon supremacy. Franklin feared mass immigration of Palatinate Germans into the United States. Discussion arose among American elites about whether their fledgling nation ought to become a tossed salad, allowing different languages such as German to be spoken, or a melting pot, forcing everyone to blend in and speak English.
Isn’t it interesting that, in a strange reversal, the phrase “melting pot” has come to mean “tossed salad”? Now it allows Somali immigrants to speak their language as officials in Minnesota and to enlist as cops and soldiers around the country who can’t speak English. By 19th-century standards, Hispanics should all be speaking English by now, just like the Germans and other Europeans who largely adapted to the dominant Anglo culture.
Palatinate German migrants arriving in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries were required to take cognitive tests at Ellis Island, such as early IQ tests. If they failed, they were considered retarded and deported straight back to Europe on the next available ship. Try that with Somalis today—would any be allowed into the United States if their nation’s average IQ is well below 70? There are quite a few gifted chimpanzees and orangutans that score above that level, and none of them can speak English either.
President Trump was right to block migration from such countries.
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