Call an ambulance because I'm dead, and I'm Canadian and can afford it.

Whiteness won't help here, this dude attacked the owner class. He's going to be smeared then locked up for the rest of his life.

What remains to be seen now is whether he gets better medical care in prison than he did via publicly available insurance.

The answer to medical debt or trying to survive without health care .... murder a health insurance CEO, get thrown in jail and receive medical care while incarcerated.
- CEOs hate this one trick
This dude did not attack anyone. Evidence was so obviously planted that it's funny.
Technically, all prison health care is publicly available

Well, he wasn't shot, choked to death, or mangled in the back of a police van at the time of arrest, so that's already a win for him.

Or locked up in the back and placed on train tracks...
there's also the 'being rich' thing

Took me a second to puzzle this out...

Just in case any of my fellow Europeans need an extra nudge in the right direction, this is relating to the guy who has been arrested for shooting the healthcare CEO, and nothing to do with people in Italy.

You mean the innocent man they arrested on suspicion of shooting the healthcare CEO
- You mean the good samaritan who shot the CEO.
Thanks. I was really wondering what this was about.
well yeah, mediterraneans like Italians and Moroccans don't count as white in europe.

EDIT : People are thinking that this is being racist against people, wheras it's 60% satirical, 40% pointing out problematic perceptions of race.

EDIT2 : updated text and information :

https://lemmy.world/comment/13904300
- "White" is not a category that is used a lot in Europe.
- Morrocans don't count as anything in Europe.
- France also borders the Mediterranean, so I don’t think you know what you’re talking about
- Wtf are you smoking ?

It is and always has been a class war. The owners love us squabbling over skin color.

Am from Italy, italians are the whitest of the whites. Rome, the church, the basis of modern Patriarchy and white supremacy was born and raised here folks

I'm from Italy as well. I always like to remember a quote from Charles Mingus, who at some point in his career had an entire black band with the exception of his sax player, Charlie Mariano. When asked about it, he answered something along of the lines of "He's not white, he's Italian."
- Maybe the social meaning of ethnicity is really relative to the racist empires they're situated in and not on some sort of inherent value
That's great and all, but it means nothing to race theorists.
- Holy Roman Empire of German Nation was a thing once...
- I don't know what you define as that demographic, but what I said is just the truth. The culture in Italy is very mixed and different between regions, but racism, both cultural and structural, is rampant, even between Italians of the north and south
i disagree
- I wonder if this is partially a north/south italy divide thing (I don't know all that much about Italy but I have heard the north was generally more privileged)
the basis of modern Patriarchy

So pagans weren’t white?

white supremacy was born

The Norse?

What a weird definition you use
- What I meant is simply that the roman empire and the Catholic church forged ideological colonial basis of today, not that racism didn't exist before
  
  Also I meant Patriarchy as an overarching colonial institution, not as an isolated cultural concept. The world wasn't always universally like this, there are many examples of non (or less) patriarchal societies throughout history, and we don't know enough about prehistory to make any definitive judgement on humanity
- white supremacy was born
  
  The Norse?
  
  Where in the world does that come from?
- Patriarchy as a colonial institution, not as a concept

I'm latino and I still do not understand how the fuck you man manage to live always looking at whiteness. Such an hysteria with the skin color.

Latinos also act prejudiced to those darker than them
- Yep, Jamaican here. Everyone is black, but there's a huge problem with "bleaching" where people are whitening their skin color, as they perceive it to be of higher status.
- Well I should have specified I'm not from US too. I realize there's racism eveywhere but classism is worse here in southamerica I believe. We aren't eveyday doing that colorism thing for sure.
- I can confirm, I'm also Latino and received various compliments on my skin color. And my friend would refuse to go to the mall in the affluent part of town complaining that she felt discriminated against because of her darker complexion even though she's beautiful. It trips me out because people here swear up and down that racism doesn't exist saying there's only classism.
  
  Edit to clarify that she felt discriminated against because of her skin color.
Well obviously you can't always look at the black ones, they disappear in the shadows. /joke

This took me too long to understand. Basically saying how Luigi is treated will determine if Italians are considered white. If he is treated with respect and not beaten while in custody Italians are confirmed as white people.

Thank you. I'm slow.

Well I actually laughed aloud at this on the train. I'm pretty much generic white looking, but have wondered if my resume ever got treated differently for the very Italian last name.

I have a very Italian full name and definitely got treated differently when I was younger. Growing up in a rural area, many of my teachers would ask me to translate Spanish for them. Oh boy.
- Grew up east coast city, so never got that stuff. Not to my face anyway. Had one or two grade school teachers who were awful towards the south american and asian kids who didn't speak any english.
Thanks. I didnt pick this up as reference to that.

they're trying to make him sound insane by referring to his manifesto with vague and scary language so I think we got our answer

It's so ridiculous, too. As far as I can tell, he was arrested, because his clothes looked superficially similar to the person who shot the CEO, but if you spend five seconds comparing the security camera images, it's pretty obvious that none of the clothing items actually match. If they hole him up based on this evidence, that's embarrassing.

Not even just the clothing. I mean, you can change clothes, and lighting can affect colors pretty wildly (see: white/gold or blue/black dress). I don't think anyone can change the shape of their face, grow a unibrow, and get a darker complexion in the span of 3 days, though.
Thanks. I didnt pick this up as reference to that.
Are you forgetting the silenced pistol and fake ID they found on him?
- I guess, I'm not up-to-date on the situation then...
- The pistol, ID, and manifesto that anybody on the run would’ve ditched in New York and could have well been in the hands of the police to be planted on whoever they saw fit?
- Haha yes the ID and pistol that definitely existed and definitely weren't planted.

im italian and dont consider myself white

Do you consider yourself a POC?
- i dont know? i mean my skin isn't white. i have a darker shade complexion than a "white" person. somewhat similar to someone from a med/middle eastern country.
my mother is Italian and often gets mistaken for Latin American
- Not surprising, since Latin is from Italy.

he's not just Italian, he's so Italian that he was named the way jowling kowling rowling would name a token Italian character in harry potter

I'm not white or Italian, I just like to complain on YouTube videos where a non Italian makes inauthentic Italian food.

Makes me feel like a real ally who is standing up for something.

I like to complain on YouTube videos where an Italian makes food with tomatoes and calls it authentic Italian food because tomatoes are Mexican. Get on my level.

So you heard it here, folks. Pizza is not Italian.
- Pizza predates tomatoes in Italy.

I mean, he is on the sworthy side.

Sexiness gets its own weighted score

Nicola and Bart were Italians, and they were treated clearly as non-white Americans. Though it was another time.

Another failure of American education here. I didn't learn about Sacco and Vanzetti until after high school. And only because Hideo Kojima decided to include the song from Sacco E Vanzetti in two of the Metal Gear games.

The majority of Caucasians have African genes.