>>175206People using those shitty arguments piss me off.
>americans are only 56% or whatever so that means I'm just as white as them!They're not by definition. As bad as things are, the U.S. still doesn't misunderstand race to the same extent a country like Brazil does, where race is more of a matter of social perception than actual ancestry. The 56% percent thing comes from a personification of the U.S. as a whole and isn't saying that Actual-Americans are actually 56% percent white.
>italians are white and I'm lighter skinned than them!Race isn't skin color.
>irish weren't considered white and then got let in so why not me?Uh oh, why did nobody tell early Americans that the Irish man who helped found their navy wasn't white? Or that two people of Irish ancestry signed the U.S. Constitution?
Even if people in the past had faulty views about race, which they sometimes did in the days before genetic science, that doesn't mean that those views shouldn't be corrected.
>there actually are a lot of them that are pretty much just as white as italians/eastern yuros/The only white Hispanics are criollos, and I imagine many of them are of questionable ancestry. I'm not a dirt worshiper don't have problems with genuinely white people coming to the U.S. legally from other parts of the world (although still I'd prefer limits on the number of immigrants of non-Germanic and non-Celtic background to maintain historical demographic continuity), but it's not exactly Ricardo Montalbans we're being flooded with. Most spics are mutts.
>middle eastern white peopleNo such thing unless they came there from Europe.