pink. i find myself referring to myself and other "white" people as pink.

[unblock]

it started off just as playful, then more as snark.

but the more i think about it, the more i like it.

it deflates the whole lot of the "culture" and "race" and even politics that goes along with "white" and points out that it's just a damn skin color.

the whole concept of "white" people and "black" people is really just a (mostly, though not exclusively) american creation to justify slavery and other forms of mistreatment of other humans based on a convenient yet arbitrary superficial division that served the interests of a conquering set of people and nations (basically europeans and their colonies, including america) over the interests of a victimized set of people and nations and cultures (basically african).

just as many disparate cultures and skin colors were lumped together to create a "black" race, a similar set of disparate cultures and skin colors were lumped together to create a "white" race. all for the furthering of slavery and abuse of one group by the other.

all that crap is wrong, always was, and calling white people "pink" helps demystify and de-mythologize the whole thing. forget about your stupid myths about glorious culture and heritage, its just a skin color, and it's not even white. it's pink, and it's stupid as hell to care about it at all.

these idiots and assholes and evil-doers are creating all kinds of havoc just so they can think there's a better shot that americans 100 years from now will largely have pink skin.

when they say they want white culture to be preserved and go on and on about white heritage, it sorta barely sounds like a legitimate point of view. but when you point out that given that they're actually destroying culture and mostly just deporting people and encouraging non-"white" people not to come here, all they're really hoping to accomplish is that the people who inhabit america 100 years from now will mostly have pink skin.

how stupid is that?

tough habit to break, but referring to myself as white gives a nod to something i want no part of.

my skin is pink, dammit!

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. calling yourself pink doesn't divest you from being white as a social construct, fwiw, because the concept of whiteness

is about so, so much more than skin color

[unblock]

3. true, though my whiteness is provisional, being jewish....

my mother and her parents and many others on that side of the family saw, one's whiteness can be revoked swiftly and painfully.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

12. so why not describe yourself as Jewish instead of white?

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14. Often I do. Most times I just identify myself as me. Unblock. Or my name irl.

On forms, Jewish comes up under religion and white or Caucasian comes up under race.

I'm starting to use other/no response more and more.....

[electric_blue68]

13. While that's true, at the same time it helps this person uncouple the tropes of whiteness from their identity. Imho

[walkingman]

2. Kind of embarrassing politically these days to be white - so I am pink also.

[SheltieLover]

18. +1

[FarPoint]

4. In the TV series, " Enterprise"....

The Andorians, who were blue skin tone with antennas...they called earthlings " pink skins".

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5. the old series had an episode with two characters who actually were white and black

one with white on the left side, black on the right; the other the reverse. they used paint/makeup, so it was actual white and black.

part of the message was that from the crew of the enterprise only saw two white and black beings; but the beings themselves were obsessed with the difference of which side which color was on, and hated each other based on that.

[FarPoint]

7. Yes..Star Trek Original...

Last night on the new Star Trek Academy...they had several of the half tone black/ white faces in the crowd ..they paid homage ..😇

[electric_blue68]

11. While I thought it looked dumb, I certainly got the point!

[electric_blue68]

10. I was going to mention that.

👍 🖖

[FadedMullet]

6. I think that I'd go with "an attractive pinkish beige", a counterpart to my characterisation of black folk.....

.......as a "an attractive mocha color".

[MineralMan]

8. Pink or Beige. I've always thought those were better names.

I have never seen a "white" person. It would be truly bizarre to see such a thing.

I just don't like calling people white or black. It's too limiting and narrow. It covers nobody.

[Mossfern]

9. Beige

with pink highlights.

Actually, we're all "on the spectrum."

[maxsolomon]

15. some "white" people have pale "olive" skin

i'm one - i'm part Hungarian. it offsets the pink of the Irish parts.

[electric_blue68]

16. A bazillion years ago I was at our NYC's World's Fair at a make up set up....

They were evaluating your skin color.
I was 12. I have no idea how they classified BlPOC shades (although on other aspects I was already made aware of racism).

For "white" people I think I remember something like pink, ?"golden" (but not yellow), and olive. I was deemed - light olive.

[love_katz]

17. My favorite teacher from high-school said that the concept of race bugged him.

He had taught general science for years. He pointed out that from a scientific point of view, humans all belong to the same race: homosapiens, or the human race.
He was half Lakota, so he wasn't trying to say let's all be white. He simply pointed out that as far as skin color goes, some folks have more melanin than others. There's minor differences in our skulls, but nothing that would classify someone as a different race. We all bleed red blood. We have far more in common than we do in differences.
The racist bullshit is about injustice and oppression and always has been.

[hlthe2b]

19. Newborn Caucasian children are pink. Most adults outside of too much sun--not so much

Newborn pigs are typically pink. Adults not so much.

So, not sure it makes all that much sense and probably does little to get past that connotation from centuries of group abuse toward the "non-white," (or "non-pink" if you prefer).

[multigraincracker]

20. Pinkish gray here. With a few spots.

[FadedMullet]

21. I hesitate to bring up "Resevoir Dogs" and Steve Buscemi's character's aversion to being "Mr. Pink".

I guess that I hesitated but decided to go ahead and bring it up anyway.

[Iris]

22. Some Black folks call us "pinkie"