What counts as white has varied over time and place, in complicated ways, because race has never been a biological absolute.
My mother and her parents were German Jews who survived Hitler in part because they sort of, sometimes, "looked white," and because my grandparents' French was good enough that they sounded like native speakers. To a first approximation, most of the time, I think of myself as white: I have that sort of privilege in a lot of contexts. And I feel a lot less safe now than I did a year ago, and that's more because of anti-Semitism than because I'm out as queer.
What you've said here doesn't feel like you're intruding inappropriately in the conversation: "I saw this interesting post by a Jewish guy" is a long way from trying to speak for a sometimes-oppressed group you're not part of.
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Date: 2017-08-17 08:38 pm (UTC)My mother and her parents were German Jews who survived Hitler in part because they sort of, sometimes, "looked white," and because my grandparents' French was good enough that they sounded like native speakers. To a first approximation, most of the time, I think of myself as white: I have that sort of privilege in a lot of contexts. And I feel a lot less safe now than I did a year ago, and that's more because of anti-Semitism than because I'm out as queer.
What you've said here doesn't feel like you're intruding inappropriately in the conversation: "I saw this interesting post by a Jewish guy" is a long way from trying to speak for a sometimes-oppressed group you're not part of.