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I wouldn't say it's like a white person talking about the purity of their bloodline. It is a white person talking about the purity of their bloodline.
But they're using Spanish proximity, which is a bit different in Latin America than just whiteness. It's not a subdivision of whiteness, it's its own thing as well.
Whether they or other white people count themselves as white, it's still about othering the indigenous, descendants of slaves, and so on in order to maintain their higher class position which is tied to having European ancestry, speaking a western European language, and being Christian. This feels like a distinction with a difference that only matters once they've left their countries for one that doesn't count them as white or when interacting with the imperial core.
It is actually a fundamental distinction that is an introduction to understanding racism outside is the Anglo context, which Hexbear users constantly project onto every other culture. It is of course inseparably tied to Euro colonialism, but it is not some agonizing distinction without a difference, it is something one must understand to discuss race in LatAm. Proximity to Spanish heritage and distance from indigenous heritage is the primary racial axis in LatAm.