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Bwahaha. So not Anglo-Saxon. Not Protestant. But somehow he is. But white.

How is this not just blatant racism again?





WASP was always a pejorative way of saying "established white European-ancestry American aristocracy".

It never applied to poor white people. It is just a label for the most common and most established phenotype in early America, up to and including the mid-20th century.

The label has lost salience over the intervening decades, but it has not faded down to be lost in the ambient level of population wealth and power.

What's your point here?


Read the thread. People definitely are applying it to white as a race, and trying to portray everyone (including poor whites) as benefitting.

It’s part of the general race war type rhetoric which has been building for awhile.

What do you think my point is?


I have no idea what your point is.

AFAICT, you intentionally goaded this thread into a dissection of WASP-vs-white, which serves zero purpose except to give you a chance to espouse something which you still haven't done, but strikes me as likely to be pretty boring after all of this.




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