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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? 🤦‍♀️

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 or 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 that begins at birth and is lifelong unless we deconstruct said programming.

white people, we learn one sociological term and run it into the ground. it doesn't mean what you think it does.

it is actually because how could racism exist without race? the only people who claim race isn't real are white

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 someone you're Black they'd think you're a dipshit. you can't pass as something you're not.

white people stop acting like we live in a post-racial society challenge!

also, being trans was never biological, that's called bio-essentialism

if the shoe doesn't fit then stop acting like your name is Cinderella

consider private servers. idk if they're less reactionary though because I haven't tried them

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?

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

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-Blackness

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 biracial people identify?

seems like you're confusing ethnicity and race, which is why the US census isn't treated as a valid source in sociology because it conflates the two.

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.

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.

white people stop pretending like we live in a post-racial society challenge

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 her gender presentation so that people's perception matches her inner reality 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 into becoming Black

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

culture and ethnicity have nothing to do with race. race is based on perceived phenotype

with allies like these who even needs Elon Muskies? Grok-ifying the fediverse is sure to lead to a tech utopia /s