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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of interesting intersecting issues at play. Will take decades to sort out.

As white men are marginalized more and more, there will be less of a common enemy for Democrats.  That was at the heart of the affirmative action cases.

The interplay between politics, marriage and child rearing will be interesting.  Conservatives are having more children, or perhaps it is more accurate to say that having children is more aligned with conservative values presently. We have no idea how it plays out.

It isn’t a given that as minority groups take power they will continue progressive liberal values (see Michigan townships where Muslim dominated city councils have scaled back on Pride celebrations).

I don’t think a coloring of America leads in a straight line to progressive goals. It will be largely dependent on secularizing immigrant populations and I suspect changing birthing patterns will also be relevant.

-A latino. [/quote]

Wait so the plan really is for white men to become “marginalized more and more”? Isn’t that exactly what replacement theory is all about?[/quote]
+1 exactly.

More and more people will be multiracial, like my kids.  We just need to all be some shade of tan/brown (my kids are half Asian) so we can stop with this racist BS.[/quote]

Humans will always find ways to create in groups and out groups. Observable differences like skin color and physical characteristics just make it easier. [/quote]

but if we are all some shade of brown/tan we can at least dispense with skin color differentiation.[/quote]

Spending some time in Brazil will quickly dispel you of that notion. Brown people start sorting each other based on their relatively lightness. It’s not something that will go away. [/quote]

Do some research on colorism.  There is a reason people try to bleach their skin.  Lighter skin is seen as more desireable.  This is common in many countries where the vast majority of people are black.  Also in countries such as Nigeria you start to sort by tribe which is tied to religion.  It doesn’t just go away.[/quote]
Don't be so ignorant.

Asian people like whiter skin because that's the way it's been for hundreds of years, same as in Europe until the 20th century.  Lighter skin = elite upper class people who don't have to work on the farms and get dark.

My (Asian) 84 year old immigrant Asian mother always despaired of me driving around in the CA sun in my convertible; my grandmother (born in the 1800s) despaired of me and my siblings getting so dark in the summer because we loved to play outside and go swimming.  The reason for this is not because she wanted us to be white adjacent. As a matter of fact, one of her kids married a white person back in the 60s in their home country, and she was very upset over it.[/quote]

Why the line "don't be so ignorant"? You are adding a supporting example to the PP's comment. Did you read it and interpret the desire for lighter skin to be white adjacent? Maybe, in these other examples, the desire for lighter skin is similar to your example of signalling wealth. You sound like you don't like white people, PP. [/quote]

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