Ask any black soccer player
Not the best example if you want to argue that it’s not about skin color, tbh.
“White” has always been more about fitting a certain narrative than a specific shade of skin.
Replace “White” with “Racism” and you’re on the money.
Whiteness has always been more important in the US that in Europe. People here have always been surrounded by other “white” nationalities and cultures that they could still be racist against.
Of all the things people say about Roma, them not being classified as white is one I have never heard.
As I’ve said before, why not try to reduce both?
And let’s be honest: Whenever someone post a sarcastic ‘good thing we banned plastic straws’ under a topic about CO2 emissions, they’re not doing it as a good faith argument that one pollution might avoid the other.