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.

Your data isn’t really more private on the fediverse, is it?
Everything you post is shared with myriad instances.
You might not end up just handing it to some large tech corp but you also give up any remnant of control over it.

Ja, passt schon