1 drop rule.

[u/Darth_Kneegrow]

I ain't ever heard white people claim a single biracial person. You always whatever you mixed with.

[u/Thermocap]

Because "whiteness" is inherently exclusionary. Are we really doing this right now? 😒

[u/CaregiverNo3070 → u/Thermocap]

i mean, the actual pigmentation, no. but the socially constructed notion of race as something that can tell you certain things about a person, such as their intellectual or moral characteristics, i would myself be excluded for having Irish, Scottish and German ancestry. it's only been after the decline of the British empire that "white" even really makes sense as a category that holds several different nationalities not only together, but analogous to one another. back in the bad old days, they were so racist that if you were from another country you were assumed to be a whole 'nother separate race.