Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?
Saleh@feddit.org 5 weeks agoProblem is that “race” isn’t just cultural. How you will be treated definitely depends on how other people perceive your “race” and subsequently it will shape your life reality.
That person you gave as an example? In the US, Canada or most European countries he will be treated better than an actual Citizen born and raised in the respective country who is perceived as “black” or “brown”.
SaltSong@startrek.website 5 weeks ago
But surely how you will be treated definitely depends on how other people perceive your “gender” and subsequently it will shape your life reality?
Everything you described up there sounds exactly like “cultural.”
Saleh@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
That makes gender more like “ethnicity”/“race” rather than “culture” don’t you think?
SaltSong@startrek.website 5 weeks ago
I’m advised that there is no scientific or genetic basis for race. I’m a little unclear on how “ethnicity” is different from “race.”
All of them seem to be social constructs.
amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
social construct isn’t a synonym for “doesn’t exist”. just because scientific racism is illogical it doesn’t mean that white people don’t behave as if we’re superior to others, whether consciously or not. you can’t say racism is ethnic oppression because even comparing between white Latino and Black Latino there’s a statistical difference in police brutality based on anti-Blacknesa