Whiteness is predicated on racism. So why do so many white people take offense at "reverse racism?"

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"Whiteness" was explicitly created to prevent African slaves and European indentureds from uniting as a class. There was a LOT of fraternization and interaction, often even marriage between the two. This creates a host of problems for a bunch of lazy fuckers who want free labor:

1: If you're too reliant on European labor, they can run away and blend into the free population; that's why the Irish slave thing never became a long term thing (btw, Irish = / = white back then). Mixed babies also make it very hard to maintain hereditary chattel slavery (again, those mixed babies can blend in better than pure Africans)

2: Those peons outnumber you by a lot, and if they're drinking, working, playing, and fornicating with each other, then at some point they realize you're stealing their labor, and they may just rise up and do something about it. Bacon's Rebellion was a HUGE turning point, but the division was already getting going. If you get those white indentureds to hate black slaves more than they hate their white masters, well, that makes things a lot easier.