Lack of melanin is not the same as whiteness. Whiteness is not biological. It is socially constructed.
According to who? Anyway, we were talking about racism and skin colour. Something people experience solely on the basis of their appearance. You’re moving the goalposts here. Telling American police that it’s okay, you support the empire and are actually white won’t change their behaviour.
According to the people who made it up? We didn’t create this social construct, it was a group of people who justified the atrocities of colonialism by attributing it to their skin color. Because it’s a social construct it must be dismantled.
According to who? Anyway, we were talking about racism and skin colour. Something people experience solely on the basis of their appearance. You’re moving the goalposts here. Telling American police that it’s okay, you support the empire and are actually white won’t change their behaviour.
We’re taking about different things here.
According to the people who made it up? We didn’t create this social construct, it was a group of people who justified the atrocities of colonialism by attributing it to their skin color. Because it’s a social construct it must be dismantled.