>>113582539The problem is that "whiteness" isn't properly defined by any collective. Some people say you're white if your skin's pigment is light enough, which contradicts some people's position on the "One Drop Rule". If it really were just about pigment, then it also removes a large chunk of Southern Europe, as well as some of the East, which is contradictory to a large portion of European history. If you look at it by purely heritage, specifically German heritage, then again it excludes Southern and Eastern Europe, but then it once again contradicts haplogroups since Germanic heritage can't be used (after multiple generations) to explain people in Iran and Northern India. If haplogroups are used to determine "Aryans", specifically R1a and R1b, then that ends up including a massive amount of ethnicities from the Old World, including Russians, Poles, Tajikistan, Indians, Turks, and Iranians. However, those who could be considered white by haplogroup would run contrary to people who believe whiteness is only skin-deep.
"What is white?" is a question that can't be answered because there is no one has decided whether whiteness is skin color, a specific ancestry, or pure genetics. This is also why trying to have a stable organization causes "white" movements to collapse, but pure chaos like /pol/ can flourish despite having multiple blacks, hapas, and latinos running around, since there is no core tenet.
