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[–][deleted] 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It makes total sense to me. If we accept that some people are born into the wrong bodies, then it must follow that skin tone is part of that as well. In fact, on the scale of things that one can feel dysphoric about, skin color is much less of a stretch compared with sex characteristics.

Blackface is the new womanface.

[–]Haylstorm 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Skin colour makes way more sense to me. What if you're adopted and raised by a black couple in black culture? Surely you'd be 'culturally' black then? You'd probably feel like you'd fit in better with them if you were black too?

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

What is culturally black? Culture of black people in Kenya will be different to culture of black people in the Caribbean, to black people in the US, the UK, France, etc. The culture of two black families on the same street may well be vastly different as their skin tone is irrelevant.

Culture can be regional, perhaps religious or within a regional ethnic group, but not racial in a generic term. There is little similarity in culture between Indians and Pakistanis, as there is little similarity between black Americans and Zulus.

[–]Superprez 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Funny how m told there's a homogenous black culture in America but no whites anywhere have a whit3 culture.