• BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Romani are actually a group of Indians who traveled up to Europe I believe over 1000 years ago, according to recent dna testing. The history of why the group migrated is lost to time. After so many generations a few white people got in there certainly, but originally people thought they were egyptian.

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        2 hours ago

        white is thrown around but its a very imprecisely defined thing.

        The meme isn’t about what kinds of people are called white. It’s about non-white characters being replaced with white characters, and no one uttering a peep. Then a mermaid is re-imagined as black and everyone loses their shit.

        (another possibility is that I am not understanding your point)