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Jessica A Krug comes out as a white woman who pretended to be black, once again causing hurt and betrayal to black community. What are trans people's priorities, I wonder?? by sussususi in GenderCritical

[–]pertinaste 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

More and more people are seeing the parallel between transracialism/blackface and transgenderism/womanface.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WPwWZ2gRGE

I know its been discussed before, but I need clarification again - why is Transgender so much different than someone saying they are Transracial? I understood before - gender is not biological, etc. but now with the blurring of biology within this ideology I am confused with this argument. by lunarenergy8 in GenderCritical

[–]pertinaste 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think the same thing applies to skin color vs race. Skin color is a biological reality, and race is a concept that's culturally and societally influenced

This would be very clear to people if Americans just started calling what they're talking about "ethnicity", as the rest of the world does, rather than "race".

That being said, I'm not really aware of the surgical or medical processes by which someone can change their skin color

Two points here.

  1. Skin color doesn't matter. DNA doesn't even matter. Virtually all African-Americans have European admixture in their genome. The average is probably 40-50%, and it can reach 90% or more. So in terms of skin color and genetics, this population would be more correctly characterized as "Afro-European Americans". And yet, they're still a cohesive and coherent demographic group, precisely because skin color and DNA don't matter. It's all about how people classify each other, and in the US, the one-drop rule still operates, among both Blacks and Whites. In Brasil, these two populations would be more like a dozen different ones, which just reinforces the idea that this is cultural and not genetic.

  2. Skin color can indeed be changed. Michael Jackson is the most famous example. John Howard Griffin is another.

I think the truth is that we are more hesitant to accept the idea of transracial people due to the massive amount of historical oppression that have been placed on people of color for centuries through imperialism, slavery, segregation, and overall, systemtic racism.

It's now common when you bring out the transgenderism=transracialism point for one or more people claiming to be Black to say that you have no right to make this comparison, that you're a racist for doing it, and so on. In fact, I strongly suspect the people who say this are trans activists, simply because there is nothing offensive in making such a comparison, and --most importantly-- the transracialism argument is the silver bullet that destroy all trans arguments, so no efforts must be spared to take it out of circulation.

Reddit is a pile of shit. On my account, where I've said nothing offensive, they banned me from /r/news. What the fuck? I was careful with that account. I didn't say anything racist, or sexist. I didn't support Trump. Yet they found a reason to ban me. The insanity! I deleted my account. Fuck 'em. by suckitreddit in censorship

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Brave exists to earn its owner money, unlike almost every browser out there. And that's a perverse incentive that can only harm users. A couple weeks ago they got caught red-handed replacing affiliate codes (Amazon, etc.) from all over the internet with their own.

Shady as hell.