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Yeah, I don’t see that in there, but didn’t purchase the app to make it searchable either. Happy to to admit if I was wrong, but that just strikes me a a poor, out of context paraphrase as opposed to something in a Global Affairs publication. Unless it’s presented as an example of something racist a government employee might encounter, followed by a few suggested replies.

IMO it is extraordinarily unlikely that the GOC is training its employees that Jews “became white” to benefit from white supremacy. In any case, I wonder why the person tweeting doesn’t just quote the passage if it actually says anything like that.
 
manny said:
Yeah, I don’t see that in there, but didn’t purchase the app to make it searchable either. Happy to to admit if I was wrong, but that just strikes me a a poor, out of context paraphrase as opposed to something in a Global Affairs publication. Unless it’s presented as an example of something racist a government employee might encounter, followed by a few suggested replies.

IMO it is extraordinarily unlikely that the GOC is training its employees that Jews “became white” to benefit from white supremacy. In any case, I wonder why the person tweeting doesn’t just quote the passage if it actually says anything like that.
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There was a screen shot of what she was referring too in the tweets replies but I can't find it now (truthfully, I don't want to wade into that pool) but it said something to this effect (using an article from Forbes explaining it to an American audience.

www.forbes.com

The Evolution Of Whiteness In The United States

This article features an interview with historian Lisa Betty. In the interview, Betty explores how race has evolved in the United States, and how the concept of whiteness has shifted over time.
www.forbes.com www.forbes.com

Firstly, when we think about immigration to the United States…historically, we have German and Irish immigrants arriving in large numbers, particularly in the 1800s. They were definitive immigrant groups that were not necessarily welcomed or thought of as American and ‘white enough’. Whiteness just didn't happen on arrival…immigrants from Northwestern Europe were defined as ‘Old Stock’ and newer immigrants from Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe entered a political context that centered whiteness, assimilation, and acculturation. The majority of these immigrants were Catholic and Jewish and coming from places like Austria-Hungary, Italy, and Poland. These immigrants became accustomed to specific conceptions of whiteness based in anti-blackness and xenophobia.
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Now she is a politician, so she extrapolates but basically, this idea of "whiteness" and "white supremacy" is that if you pass as white, you benefit from our "white supremacy" society.
 
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