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goatAlmighty t1_jb6gvpg wrote

Reply to comment by Normal-Flower4437 in Explaining what's wrong with digital blackface by ADefiniteDescription

That sounds about right. In any case, the very first point alone is basically racism. Any kind of opinion along the lines of "one race has more rights than another" is.

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Normal-Flower4437 t1_jb6htq9 wrote

I forgot to add “if we determine you look like or are associated with the least marginalized, you are the least marginalized. And Vice versa.”

Which is how my brown Morrocan Jewish friend became “white” in the eyes of his progressive coworkers for being Jewish. And how immigrant children of genocides got “white privilege.” And how a blonde-haired Palestinian became “brown”, but a Christian Arab from Syria became “white”.

It’s so fucking stupid. I even witnessed a movement to categorize black men as “white-adjacent” because so many black men were getting tired of the arbitrary rules and how often they’d get points for blackness but negative points for maleness. So a bunch of super-progressive WOC on TikTok, tired of men of their own race pushing back on the ideology, started on “men of color are white-adjacent due to their maleness.”

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goatAlmighty t1_jb6o8w4 wrote

That's wild.

The method they choose doesn't really matter though. As soon as somebodies' rights or their position in society are based on what race they are, that's racist by definition.

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