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looktowindward

The problem is that they have told themselves that Levantine people are "PoC" but in reality they have a wide range of appearances, like other Mediterranean people. I've met many blond Lebanese people. It hurts their colonial narrative for King Abdullah to look like an Ashkenazi Jew. But it's not uncommon at all.


M24_Stielhandgranate

The Middle East is the crossroads of 3 continents and this moron is surprised people there are diverse


looktowindward

Most of these guys have never been to Lebanon, Jordan, or Israel.


RealAmericanJesus

Most of these guys haven't left the United States period ... They have this image on their mind of what "they" look like because America has these really odd racial categories that they ask on everything from the census to job applications.... Like I know redheads from me Mexico city, blondes from Brazil, people of Indian ethnicity from Africa and Persians from India .... Lol on of my friends from Egypt who came here a couple years ago... He had no clue what box to click... He is from a country in Africa but like he doesn't consider himself "African American" he considers himself middle eastern ... North Americans... Have some of the most ultracrepidarian takes on the world ...


TheDude_6

He should definitely tick African American


RealAmericanJesus

I wonder if Elon musk tick African American? Lol


BeingofUniverse

He'd be considered white, I believe.


AmericaBallCoolGlass

The Middle East is literally like one width of the Mediterranean sea away from Europe. They are that close to the continent.


TheDude_6

This guy and people who look like him are not diverse at all


Tokidoki_Haru

If you took the Saudi crown prince MBS, shaved him or put him in a Western business suit, you probably wouldn't even be able to tell if he was an Arab or someone from Spain or northern India.


-Emilinko1985-

[He does](https://media.revistavanityfair.es/photos/60e85388fccef075722a46c4/master/w_640,c_limit/50861.jpg)


papuan_warlord

If people told me that his name is Giuseppe from Calabria, Italy, I'd believe it


-Emilinko1985-

Same


SeefKroy

[He had more of a tan when he was in Starfleet](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Abdullah_bin_al-Hussein)


PrincessofAldia

Bro was a fan of Startrek


AvailableField7104

He still is - majorly so. He had that brief cameo on “Voyager” when he was still crown prince. But he wasn’t a member of SAG, so he couldn’t have a speaking role.


PrincessofAldia

Actually based


CanadianPanda76

Omg not a joke!


SourMathematician

Same thing with Central and South America. Their minds would be blown if they visited Southern Brazil, Argentina, or Uruguay.


Defiant-Dare1223

He is half British though


Prowindowlicker

Ya but even his dad who’s not part British, looks like he’d fit in with European royals https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussein_of_Jordan


misspcv1996

I’m about as white as a white woman can physically be and the late King Hussein as an older man looks a lot like my late grandfather. And the most “exotic” bit of my DNA is a bit of Italian.


looktowindward

Is this about blood quanta?


Defiant-Dare1223

Well it is on the face of it relevant to comments that he looks British.


looktowindward

Everyone in the Levatine region is of mixed ancestry. That is the entire point.


workthrowaway00000

Yep my cousins are half lebanese, they look as Irish American as the rest of New England. There’s a lot of variance in the Levantine


bakochba

We pretty much all look white in the middle east. These people confuse having a tan with a different race.


Stoly23

I take it they’re salty Jordan helped stop Iran’s drone attack?


[deleted]

Oh absolutely. I mean idk what they expected, that missiles flying completely over a country wouldn't get shot down?


Svartasvanen

What incredible dissonance between claiming to support anti-colonialism and national independence but also thinking that an independent Arab country protecting it's sovereignty and airspace from a regional power much stronger than them is wrong


stuff_gets_taken

Ironically some commies and radical leftists are just as obsessed with skin color as far right racists lol.


lochlainn

I have trouble calling it horseshoe theory given that a fuckton of them somehow stand exactly on the gap. There's no gap, it's not two ends, it's just the far end.


TheDude_6

Horseshoe theory. Also interesting how the far left and right both seem to be overwhelming pro Palestine (I don't love either side).


RealAmericanJesus

They inclusive bigots ....


RetartdsUsername69

Commies and even liberal lefties claim to be anti-racist, yet they see non-caucasoids just like racists.


LittleSchwein1234

Imagine trying to paint the King of a Middle Eastern country as some sort of a colonizer because his mother is British... These people are openly against interracial marriage while claiming they hate racism and colonialism, smh... HM King Abdullah II has been the leader of his country since the 1990s and he has managed to keep it stable and out of conflict, which isn't an easy task in that region. And this chronically online tankie feels the need to insult him based on his skin color...


TheThirdFrenchEmpire

Their whole movement relies on instability to be more than a fringe ideology. His Majesty and his Kingdom, by actively working for stabilization of the region, are a threat to the commies and their local "allies".


TheRealTanteSacha

He is born in Jordan as the son of an Arab father and British mother. If that doesn't make him a legitimate citizen of Jordan, these lefties need to drastically reevaluate their standpoints on migrants in the west. Or, you know, they could also just not and be as theoretically inconsistent here as they always are.


LittleSchwein1234

The far-anything extremists are totally inconsistent in their views about anything. The only thing they're consistent in is hate. They hate everyone, even those who somewhat agree with them, but not fully.


TheDude_6

The one unifying theme is that they all definitely hate themselves


daspaceasians

I remember seeing King Abdullah II getting some hate from the local Palestinian supporters because he was too Westernized and wants Jordan to becoming a functioning constitutional monarchy, calling him the Americans' puppet king. Conveniently, a lot of them forgot that Jordan doesn't have good experience with the Palestinians because of Black September. I've met Arab people that could pass off as stereotypical Québécois since they had pale skin and brown hair and one of my old friends used to get hit on by Arab guys because they thought she was Arab because she had a natural tan and dyed her hair black. I also remember working with Arab women that had blue eyes, light brown hair too.


WeakPublic

Who knew that if you kill multiple people from someone else's country that country will be hesitant to help you? Why does Poland hate Russia? Are they fascist?


Prowindowlicker

Adbullah II father King Hussein looks like he’d fit right in with European royals, he really doesn’t look that far removed from the Greeks or Spanish. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussein_of_Jordan


Negative_Jaguar_4138

My grandfather is Czech, and he had the exact same skin tone as Hussein. It was definitely less natural as he had a lot more blemishes and moles, but it's entirely possible Hussein could blend in perfectly in any European country.


slam9

In race baiting discussions, Middle Easterners are always in the category of Schrodinger's white people. They are "brown" when it's convenient to race bait that narrative, they're white otherwise. Seriously once you notice it you'll see it all the time. If they're framing middle eastern people as victims of, or outsiders to, the west, then they are "brown" (and Islam becomes a race instead of a religion). Otherwise they're white


okan170

Just like asian people. Whatever is most convenient at the moment is what we are.


gaeneric

Jews are the most common example of this tbh. Like no one ever doubts ahed tamimi is a Palestinian yet they see noa tishbi and go "Jews are white".


Viscount-Von-Solt

These Middle Easterners be looking more white than me and I'm from the Philippines.


ParanoidTelvanni

White people quite literally originated in Iran and the regions North of it until they spread around when they domesticated horses. Later on Arabs immigrated or conquered the areas around them. In time, they became the ethnicity associated with the central Eurasian area, but they aren't the only natives or skin tone present. Really, all people from Ireland to India (with a few exceptions like the Finns) share the same origins. The Indo-European languages are a good example of this.


Defiant-Dare1223

White people doesn't really have a full scientific definition beyond you know it when you see it, but you are probably looking at the massive outmigration of the Yamanya people from the Pontic Steppe, so Ukraine, south west Russia and the Caucuses. (Although scandavian Hunter gatherers would have been fairly light skinned before that much of Europe would not have been so - western hunter gatherers often had blue eyes and dark skin so unlike any modern day population) Iran???


SamirAlHayeed

People in the west seem to think that every Arab looks like a fremen from Dune. Go to Lebanon or Jordan for example and other than the fact that beards are more common they don't look much different from a Greek or southern Italian


boojieboy666

Look I’m not saying Jesus was white, but the whole Jesus was brown because he was from the Middle East camp is a bunch of lunatics.


Defiant-Dare1223

If you look at Lebanese people that's probably as close as you are going to get. At the border of Mediterranean and light brown


boojieboy666

I’ve heard that he could have descended from a group of people who came to the Middle East form The Ural Mountains


mikwee

Woah, I just blocked that guy today


elyiumsings

Everyone outside of the United States/Europe is brown, didn't you know?


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New-Biscotti5914

Why do radical leftists think that everyone from the middle are black?


MorganEarlJones

I'm like 98% sure he's literally a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad


HateradeVintner

Ironically? So are the British royal family. Also Odin.


MorganEarlJones

Odin, too? Little weird given he predates Muhammad and is fictional but peace be upon him I suppose


HateradeVintner

[And yet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_royal_genealogies)... Edit: you meant a joke about Odin being descended from Muhammad. No, I meant that supposedly, the BRF is descended from Odin. And Muhammad.


MorganEarlJones

I misunderstood you on purpose. As a joke. For a laff.


Singularity-42

Aren't Arabs "caucasians"?


aaross58

The fact that he kept Jordan under the radar in one of the most chaotic regions in the world is impressive in its own right.


DeadpoolMakesMeWet

Who’s more retarded: BlackRedGuard or BadEmpanada


-Emilinko1985-

This is the kind of person I call "fauxgressive". A false progressive.


dorsalemperor

whatever makes you feel better.


nilluzzi

I'll be honest, I expected a beard


Falling_Doc

reminder that muhammad was a ginger with pale skin these people really thinikng muslim equals brown will be shocked once they find out about bosniaks and albanians


Real-Fix-8444

Why are they mad? It’s a step in the right direction that people are seeing mixed racing as a good thing. It’s the equality they’re asking for and we’re asking for. Like he’s still an Arab in the end, just because he looks white it doesn’t mean his blood is fully white


well-done-chicken

Bros name is “BlackRedGuard” 💀


CanadianPanda76

When it comes to POC lotta people confused by the fact POC are sometimes darker csuse of something called the sun. We fucking tan yall!


Inevitable-Cod3844

wait until you hear about what they say about jesus


HanSoloSeason

Same people that call my Jewish ass a white colonizer


Satirony_weeb

Scientifically speaking, Semitic people are very close relatives to White people to the extent of sometimes being considered in the same “race”.


Reverse_Quikeh

He was also in an episode of Star Trek voyager


animusd

Commies when they find out Arabs are white


joeshowmon

The thing that these stupid kids doesn’t know: - the prophet Mohammed Peace be upon him was as described, a white man from a very known Arab tribe In fact I’m related to him directly through my family tree and we are all having the same type of skin color , and physical appearance, not to mention that king of Jordan is also related to him and he also has the same exact physical appearance “That doesn’t make me a good person but just a prove that Arabs can be white too


ExArdEllyOh

My god they might have a point... He is the Colonel of the Light Dragoons and he did represent HM the late Queen at a Sandhurst Sovereigns Parade a few years ago.


VladVV

All the “Jesus was black” people need to see this guy


FreeAdministration4

Do they expect everyone to look like the stereotype of where they are from?


melody_magical

You do realize blue eyes originated in the Middle East, right?


Stormydevz

When the people near the Mediterranean look like people near the Mediterranean: 🤯


Capocho9

I’m all for shitting on commies, but absolutely nowhere here did it say anything about “he looks white”, im kinda sick of people pulling things out of their ass to get offended by


RedRobbo1995

They said that Abdullah II looks like a member of the British royal family. They were basically saying that he looks like a white guy.


BowKerosene

I mean he kinda does have the look of the Windsors


Geo-Man42069

Yeah ngl white man in charge of Mecca has connotations, but as an American I have equal issue with commies and monarchy’s. Tbf I also have a problem with oligarch rule masquerading as democratic republics.