I didn't demand unbiased references, I asked you to share one if you had it. That last article's references have potential :)

"White people" was a recognised expression earlier than I'd been led to believe, thank you.

But as to when it became a dominant self-definition ("I am White like other White people" supplanting e.g. "I am Calvinist" or "I am a man of Kilkenny") I defer to Ignatiev's rather extravagantly well-researched hate tract. (I mean, book.)

The level of special-pleading and reaching for any excuse to dismiss the suffering of "White" slaves in that The Conversation article is chilling, and the author seems personally obsessed with "reparations for slavery", and wants to reserve them for one politically-useful clique.

That author hates as well or better than Ignatiev, but is only 10% the scholar. IIRC Ignatiev is quite willing to admit death rates were higher for slaves under "indentured servitude" compared with those under African chattel-slavery laws. He minimises, but he doesn't lie.

Srsly, you might like the work, whatever you think of the man.

Theconversation article gets better (took a while to finish loading here), and includes more references. But if you can read that without throwing up you'll like Ignatiev more.

Totally agree with your first point. Its also central to Ignatiev's argument.

That theconversation article is revisionist verbiage, both more Woke and less scholarly than Ignatiev. The early-1600s date for first use of "White" as an ethnonym surprises me, will follow up the source. The rest of the argument is unreferenced bilge. The West Indies in particular were defined by free/unfree identities, even between people of the same skin tone. The first slaves sold in the West Indies were Irish, you know. And many plantation owners were black.

"Whiteness" may or may not have been circulating as a concept among playwrights, but it was conspicuous in its absence from public life until the 1800s in America, and even later in the British Empire.

The mid 1600s had sectarian "total wars" in continental Europe, the English Civil War, and an openly genocidal seven-year campaign to subdue (Catholic) Ireland.

Ethnic identities were very much second to sectarian identities in the 1600s, and tbf the 1700s were not THAT different.

Not exactly fertile cultural soil for chummy pan-European "Whiteness"!

Happy to be wrong, but I'm going to need a source or three! Extraordinary claims and all that.

Ignatiev was not one to hide his beliefs "under a bushel", and I cannot rule that out.

I checked your reference, and https://govtrackus.s3.amazonaws.com/legislink/pdf/stat/1/STATUTE-1-Pg189.pdf does indeed use the expression "free White persons". So use of that term as an ethnonym certainly predates the earliest sources cited by Ignatiev.

I still find his book to be (whilst admittedly rabidly biased) the most authoritative work on the popularisation of the White as an ethnonym.

If you know a better one, please share it!

Loot them first! Why do I have to keep telling ppl this... (grumble grumble)

Hahaha there's hope for America after all!

What a chillingly bipartisan bill! Banning sexual content AND privacy/ability to criticise.

"The shred of truth in this statement is that the Democrats care about peace about as much as the Republicans care about freedom..."

- Noam Chomsky

I hope Ohioan voters are paying attention and can hold individual representatives accountable, rather than lazily assuming one party is good...

Yup.

And a lot of smug class-signaling.

I like Sun Tzu's "first, attack the enemy's strategy".

If your land can't be profitably invaded/extorted, it probably won't be. And if it is anyway, for some other reason, the invaders' elite will eventually get bored and leave.

This usually requires defending it, but you could construct situations where it doesn't.

We were a British penal colony, and we still have most of it left!

Not street-legal here...

Aww man... I'm sorry.

The 'Mog threw tyres much more easily. And they're not trivial to replace!

Luckily that time it happened when i was out with him we had an older friend with us who showed us how to pop the tyre back on the rim with a controlled propane/air explosion. That was Metal!

Not mine, but a friend had a 6x6 Pinzgauer. Went offroading with him a few times.

Madness! That thing could climb cliffs.

He sold it and bought a Unimog for the higher ground clearance. Fail.

Did you wash dishes?

Take a bath?

Probably in the plumbing s-bend if you did

If they collapsed today, their friends in high places would get them a bailout... :-/

When I was shredding my original account, I used a Firefox extension - social book manager or some such. Took weeks. Added all nonsense personal details, added some bogus content.

That bogus content bit is hard, I should have done more of it before they locked my account.

If I was shredding a #facebook account today, I would seriously use this https://www.ayrshare.com/creating-social-media-posts-with-chatgpt-api/ to add bogus content in bulk, but it didn't exist when I was getting out of FB... :(

There is no deleting past content, really. But we can corrupt it! Scramble the signal!

Use ChatGPT to write some new content. It doesn't take much to smudge your "fingerprint".

And if they catch you in the change and lock your account, they'll never be too sure when the " hackers" compromised it

Bro, they have your data. You can't take it back.

But you can make it worthless by changing everything to be false. You suddenly love Hello Kitty and Joe Biden, and you search for trans support videos, whisky flavoured toothpaste, and weekend getaways in Finland.

Context, please?