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- Comment on Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned? 5 days ago:
good thing the flag doesn’t exist for outsiders to opine about, eh?
- Comment on Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned? 5 days ago:
garbage opinion, you’re the kinda person that’d take issue with Black Lives Matter because you assume that implies white lives are inferior.
also, the progress flag is flown worldwide at Pride so you’re just spreading misinformation
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 week ago:
race doesn’t work that way though, does it? it’s impossible for Black people to not pass as Black because it’s been proven they experience racism based on an immutable characteristic.
gender identity isn’t based on appearance, race is strictly appearance based. the fact you’re bringing self-identification into this makes it sound like you’re arguing in bad faith and trying to diminish Black people’s experiences.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 week ago:
yes thanks for elaborating. the reason why I got defensive is because most of the time when I argue with other white people, they abuse the socially constructed race theory to make me concede that racism doesn’t exist or that whites can experience “reverse racism”.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 week ago:
so I never said it’s a biological reality, just that it’s real because white supremacy is real. seems like we agree
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 week ago:
extremely simple question for you, if bell hooks believed race isn’t real then why does she call herself Black? do you seriously believe she means that in a “race doesn’t exist” way? 🤦♀️
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 week ago:
OK, so at least you’re conscious that the word race makes you uncomfortable. and I’ll ask this in good faith, why do you think that is? maybe because acknowledging that your white phenotype, something you have no control over and could never change, gives you privilege over non-white people?
I promise you that the words you use and don’t use won’t make racism go away, confronting internalized racism will. and that’s what white privilege is, the opportunity for us to go our entire lives without ever having to acknowledge race still exists, white supremacy is commonplace, and we’re part of that system because of societal brainwashing.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 week ago:
white people, we learn one sociological term and run it into the ground. it doesn’t mean what you think it does.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 week ago:
it is actually because how could racism exist without race? the only people who claim race isn’t real are white
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 week ago:
maybe stop comparing race and gender then. trans women only pass because we’re women. you can’t pass as Black because if you told them that they’d think you’re a dipshit
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 week ago:
white people stop acting like we live in a post-racial society challenge!
also, being trans was never biological, that’s called bio-essentialism
- Comment on How Relooted, A Game About Reclaiming African Artifacts From Western Museums, Ended Up Being Shown By A White Guy At Summer Game Fest 1 week ago:
if the shoe doesn’t fit then stop acting like your name is Cinderella
- Comment on 'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events 1 week ago:
consider private servers. idk if they’re less reactionary though because I haven’t tried them
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 week ago:
does a Black person wearing a wig or straightening their hair make them white? i don’t understand this asinine question.
Vitiligo is a disability that causes ostracization so he tried hiding it. there’s this thing called universal vitiligo which can progress to your entire skin. maybe do a bit of research next time before casting judgment?
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 week ago:
if we couldn’t then by definition racism would cease to exist? if white people don’t perceive you as Black then you aren’t, no need to complicate it needlessly
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 week 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
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 week ago:
you mean they were raised with Black culture? there’s a difference between Black American as an ethnicity and Black as a racial classification. a white biracial can be raised by 2 Black parents and identify with that culture but that won’t lead to them experiencing racism because their phenotype is still white to cops and other whites. i don’t understand the relevance of how biracials identify?
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 week ago:
seems like you’re confusing ethnicity and race. even if biracial Black people identify as white because of having a white parent (anti-Blackness) that doesn’t change the fact they will continue experiencing racism for being Black. race is all about first impressions because it was meant to be a cognitive model for white people to reduce our guilt for enslaving Black people.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 week ago:
ironically the assumption that Michael was trying to become white is both racist and ableist. he was suffering from vitiligo which led him to use skin-lightening prescription creams to cover up the uneven blotches of color caused by the disability.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 week ago:
white people stop pretending like we live in a post-racial society challenge
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 week ago:
gender identity has nothing to do with physical appearance. it has to do with what you identify as. a Black trans woman can choose to transition socially but can’t “transition” into being white. she’d have to do a body transplant for that since race is strictly based on perceived phenotype not self-identification. the reason why whites can’t transition races is because the racial oppression only goes one way, like a pyramid. white people invented the racial caste system so it’d be impossible for us to oppress ourselves
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 week ago:
transracial adoption doesn’t imply that the child’s race is being changed but that the adopting family is of a different race than them. it’s usually meant to highlight the way white parents adopt Black children to be used as slave labor.
we keep the divisions who’s we? this is dangerous and is implying that the only reason racism keeps being an issue is because Black people refuse to move on. only we as whites have the privilege to ignore the racial caste system and pretend like nothing is going on
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 week ago:
culture and ethnicity have nothing to do with race. race is based on phenotype
- Comment on Kirsten Dirksen - Tetris founder's family village is collapse-proof, remote offgrid-topia 1 month ago:
settlers cozying up in their LARP bunkers while indigenous Hawaiians die from homelessness
- Comment on Indie Dev Who Pulled Game From Xbox In Solidarity With Palestinian-Led BDS Hopes Others Will Do The Same 1 month ago:
wdym by actionable end state?
- Comment on Inside the life of a 24/7 streamer: ‘What more do you want?’ 1 month ago:
probably because she doesn’t want to sell what’s supposed to be an intimate relationship for capital
- Comment on is it ableist to “support equal rights and those with disabilities” but think someone is terrible and doesn’t deserve rights for showing signs of a disability? 1 month ago:
associating psychosis and narcissism with being abusive is textbook ableism, so yeah
- Comment on Interview: Tawny Newsome On Finding The Sweet Spot For Her Star Trek Workplace Comedy 1 month ago:
do you only claim “the brand is diluted” when Black women get involved or do you do that for every mediocre project?
unless you’re Stamets and you already saw all the future Trek projects I don’t understand how you’d know whether they’re good or not.
- Comment on Interview: Tawny Newsome On Finding The Sweet Spot For Her Star Trek Workplace Comedy 1 month ago:
Mariner is one of my favorite Trek characters period. I’m happy they’re letting Black women write their own plots.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
no, if anything it will increase them because prices going up is almost always tied to mass layoffs. austerity package and all that.