Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?

• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Do you mean there is slavery and segregation still going on on the us?

  This wasn’t the point I was making, but yes actually. Regardless of how you restrict your definitions, slavery still exists in the US under the thirteenth amendment as a form of punishment, and our prisons are full of them.

  And yes, segregated schools (and even things like “segregated proms” within supposedly-integrated schools) still exist.

  The study found that minority students became more isolated and less exposed to whites within a school although districts were statistically more integrated.[44] Another 2013 study found that segregation measures increased over the previous 25 years due to changing demographics.[29] The study did not find an increase in racial balance. Racial unequality remained stable.

  […]

  A 2013 study corroborated these findings, showing that the relationship between residential and school segregation became stronger between 2000 and 2010. In 2000, segregation of black people in schools was lower than in their neighborhoods; by 2010, the two patterns of segregation were “nearly identical”.[46]

  en.wikipedia.org/…/School_segregation_in_the_Unit…

  And even still, they’re openly moving to bring it back more widely: cnn.com/…/louisiana-justice-department-desegregat…

  cnn.com/…/louisiana-justice-department-desegregat…

  That said, what I was referring to was the lingering effects that are very real, even if they are not immediately evident to an outside viewer. I could tell you’re not from here, because if you were, you’d understand what I’m talking about.

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