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How Italian Americans can and should be considered people of color
Smerconish.com ^ | May 23, 2019 | Christopher Binetti

Posted on 06/05/2019 2:05:33 PM PDT by OddLane

Wendy’s has a commercial where a group of stereotypical Italian Americans crowd around an idealized white person and act crudely and threateningly towards him. They eat like slobs, eating spaghetti and meatballs, acting suspiciously of him, and generally make buffoons of themselves. They wear gold chains, have a darker complexion than the white man, and have very ethnic features such as black hair and big noses. Most obviously, the premise is that they are all mobsters and that the white man is there to defeat their evil. At the end of the commercial, two very non-Italian looking federal agents are shown.

This commercial was about a parmesan Caesar salad, by the way. The commercial took Italian food, culturally appropriated it, weaponized it, and attacked Italian Americans with it. The media is not covering this outrageous commercial. In fact, there is a civil rights group on Facebook that gets attacked, both by Italians and non-Italians, in very hateful language, just for pointing these kinds of issues out to the general public. Facebook, quick to ban right-wing haters, seems to be fine with the Italophobia...

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: christopherbinetti; italianamericans; stereotypes; wendys
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1 posted on 06/05/2019 2:05:33 PM PDT by OddLane
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To: OddLane

“Italians hold their d-—s even more than we do.” - Eddie Murphy


2 posted on 06/05/2019 2:06:47 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: OddLane

That’s all we need more...


3 posted on 06/05/2019 2:08:53 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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Why not? Italy is just Europes Mexico


4 posted on 06/05/2019 2:08:55 PM PDT by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: OddLane

Eye-talians are ate up and probably have blogs.


5 posted on 06/05/2019 2:10:00 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: dsrtsage

I would say Poland fits that description better in 2019. Polish sent all over the EU doing jobs the locals won’t...


6 posted on 06/05/2019 2:11:31 PM PDT by Levy78
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To: OddLane

My blond haired blue eyed Tuscan mother would have been very surpised.


7 posted on 06/05/2019 2:11:50 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: OddLane

that’s whacked... and i am italian...


8 posted on 06/05/2019 2:11:54 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: dsrtsage

How so?


9 posted on 06/05/2019 2:12:03 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: OddLane

I don’t recall the exact name of our FReeper brother from Staten Island but he needs to be on this thread. dp something...


10 posted on 06/05/2019 2:12:16 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: OddLane

White is a color


11 posted on 06/05/2019 2:12:21 PM PDT by gubamyster
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To: OddLane

Italy has 3 different ethnic zones

Southern Italy and Sicily were populated by Greek colonists with small mixture of North African people here tend to be short and darker

Middle Italy was the Latins Aka Romans

Northern Italy has large mixture of Celtic and Germanic (Visigoths and Lombards) people here are fairer with blonds


12 posted on 06/05/2019 2:12:42 PM PDT by njslim
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To: Levy78

And today in Poland, Ukrainians do the jobs that Poles won’t do.


13 posted on 06/05/2019 2:12:47 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: OddLane; dp0622

No, man. Italians are “Latin.” Old school. And there was no “X” in Latin, either, unless you were counting to 10. We were “X” before Malcolm. Ten X’s and you became a C for Centurion.


14 posted on 06/05/2019 2:12:56 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: OddLane

Woah…Fugetaboutit.

My gumbas will not be happy about it. Except maybe the Sicilians. (Kidding).

The northern Italians already consider south of Rome moolanyans. So I’m of color I guess.


15 posted on 06/05/2019 2:12:59 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: gubamyster
I play a lot of golf and my color changes in the summer. I am bi-color.
16 posted on 06/05/2019 2:14:45 PM PDT by Baynative ("A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." - John Barrymore)
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To: dfwgator

Sovereignty no longer applies to the west. Any nation comprised of primarily white people is under attack from every angle. By design of course.


17 posted on 06/05/2019 2:14:53 PM PDT by Levy78
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To: OddLane

As an Eyetalian American I hate it when my salad is culturally appropriated.


18 posted on 06/05/2019 2:15:06 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Use Comey's Report, Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: OddLane; dp0622; humblegunner; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON
Oh, yeah, and we make good calzone. Just don't f*** with our money.


19 posted on 06/05/2019 2:15:19 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Chickensoup

As would my blonde haired, blue eyed uncle from Sicily.


20 posted on 06/05/2019 2:15:34 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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