To be honest, I don't really give a shit about my being white.
I don't really care about anyone being proud of their race, but it is kinda annoying to see double standards happen. If someone of any race tells me that their race is better than any other race, I'll just think them an idiot and continue along me way.
My roommate constantly makes racist jokes that are semi-serious and not funny, and I think he's a total fucking tool for it. I also see black comedians go up on stage and say "Wow, there sure are a lot of white people here" like it's supposed to be funny or something. Even more confusing is the fact that people laugh at that. So what if there are a lot of white people at a comedy club? I don't understand the joke...
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White groups that promote pride in their particular ethnicity are all around us, they just don't use that particular phrasing because it's been coopted by the bigots. Chicago has a city wide yearly celebration of Irish people on St. Patrick's Day. The town where I grew up had a Scottish league. There's a Basque club not far from where I sit typing this. I don't hear a chorus of voices objecting to those groups celebrating their heritage.
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Yeah, but being Irish or Scottish doesn't have anything to do with race. Those are nationalities.
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"White Pride", on the other hand, seems more a celebration of skin tone than any ethnic heritage. There is no "white race," there is merely a group of ethnicities that share some superficial physical characteristics and a common continent of origin.
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Caucasians aren't a race?
Using your logic, there isn't any "black race" either. Merely a group of people from Africa or Australia who share a common skin tone. Being Asian isn't a race then either.. It just means that you happen to have skin tone similarities to other people from that region of the world.
I'd say being from Europe is an ethnic heritage. Or in my case, being of Russian descent.