good thing the flag doesn’t exist for outsiders to opine about, eh?

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

drug prevention doesn’t work just like trying to stop teens from fucking doesn’t work. you either stop adding to the stigma by providing them with informed consent and harm reduction resources or stfu.

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.

PS: using ciswomen and transwomen makes you sound like a TERF.

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”.

so I never said it’s a biological reality, just that it’s real because white supremacy is real. seems like we agree

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.

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

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

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