yes. it is ridiculous how much levantines are getting whitewashed and are branded as eastern italians on reddit and numerous anthroforums. it was especially prominent in the past before g25 and admixturetools/qpadm became accessible to people. it did not help much when on popular forums people like sikeliot who had made 110,000 posts whitewashed lebanese and syrians in every other post he made. and many others mimicked him and copied his behavior. even until nowadays levantines are heavily whitewashed. but when it comes to kurds no matter how many photos, videos and dna results together with pics you have posted of kurds as well as general models with kurdish references has not changed a single mind and has been a huge waste of energy and time unfortunately. i dont understand the irremovable bias against kurds. also pajeets fighting an active battle to darkwash northern west asians and kurds explicitly really does not help at all