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>there's a skin tone that could be anything from se asian to
>hispanic to light skin black to "swarthy" white
>
>Most subsaharan africans are locked into their classification,
>as are most mainland asians and japanese. And western euros.

But they aren't locked into a polarized 'black/white' identity classification.
It's an ethnographic classification, not a racial one.

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On: The theory of fluidity as it pertains to gender/sex, and race. [View all] , Vex_id, Wed Mar-18-15 12:14 PM
 
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Good post. Short answer, I think we can and will
Mar 18th 2015
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in a word: ignorance.
Mar 18th 2015
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its been chalked up to and dismissed as #tragicmulatto
Mar 18th 2015
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people brought it up with the raven symone thing i thinki
Mar 18th 2015
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Ghouliani gave it a go with Obama
Mar 18th 2015
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fabulous point.
Mar 18th 2015
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RE: Ghouliani gave it a go with Obama
Mar 18th 2015
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      RE: Ghouliani gave it a go with Obama
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Race and gender ain't the same
Mar 18th 2015
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Yeah, gender's a real thing.
Mar 18th 2015
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      bingo
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      it's no more 'real' than race.
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           I disagree - in part.
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           sex/gender.
Mar 18th 2015
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           Almost exactly what I was going to say. Also
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                . . .
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           right.
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           RE: right.
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                RE: right.
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                     RE: right.
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                          thanks - I'm familiar w/ the academic sources.
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           here's where it gets tricky
Mar 18th 2015
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                yes/no.
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                     I was using gender and sex interchangeably because
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                          they're not the same though.
Mar 18th 2015
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                               you're right, they're not, but there's overlap
Mar 18th 2015
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                                    there is.
Mar 18th 2015
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fluidity requires equality, IMO
Mar 18th 2015
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I dunno that the fluidity of race identity isn't accepted.
Mar 18th 2015
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lol I'm almost positive you were one of the first ones to
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      i don't care if i was.
Mar 18th 2015
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lol I got booed in here for asking the same thing a while back
Mar 18th 2015
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the vessel can, at times, influence the message.
Mar 18th 2015
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Race is a social construct that doesn't do complexity all that well.
Mar 18th 2015
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yup
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RE: Race is a social construct that doesn't do complexity all that well....
Mar 18th 2015
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      I think Gender is a social construct. Sex is not.
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           but sex is not a binary. There are people who don't fit neatly into m/f
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                yup. they're intersexed.
Mar 18th 2015
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                     Exactly and its' not limited to what we used to call "hermaphrodites"
Mar 18th 2015
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                          but by sheer numbers, these are all edge cases. like extremely rare
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                               yes but their existence is proof that sex isn't binary.
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                                    No one said it is binary.
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                                         Great. Bc it ain't.
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                                              Ok, while we are at it. Tuesday ain't Monday.
Mar 18th 2015
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                                                   and 4 is not 5.
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                                                        I know. I merely want to point out that this is an unnecessary tangent.
Mar 19th 2015
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                                                             it *kinda" is
Mar 19th 2015
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Nancy Giles should have admitted that she played herself.
Mar 18th 2015
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De-racination will only work when the benefits of whiteness go away
Mar 18th 2015
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if its real, it wouldn't wait for society to be ready
Mar 18th 2015
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      what's the "it" that you're referring to..?
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           a person's ''alternate'' racial identity
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                gotcha
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people don't remember that the Feds put mixed race into the census?
Mar 18th 2015
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Hmmph
Mar 18th 2015
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that's true too
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yuuuup. always.
Mar 18th 2015
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actually no, there are people in this very post promoting 'fluidity'
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Black has always existed as a multiplicity of identity.
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passing is proof of the fluidity.
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but that fluidity only exists within a very narrow range of the spectrum
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      and?
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      "racial fluidity", as discussed in the OP reeks of convenient side-stepp...
Mar 18th 2015
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           you could've just kept it at this and called it a day:
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                ooooor I could share my thoughts and voice an opinion
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      *holding ya cape like*
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The post can end here.
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RE: The post can end here.
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      That isnt the point.
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      it kinda is, though.
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           RE: it kinda is, though.
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      Because men still disproportionately have the drive, the ambition, the
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           k.
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yep
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Maybe because race by skin color is a false human coping concept.
Mar 18th 2015
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Do you, personally, wish to identify as other races, Vex?
Mar 19th 2015
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I identify ethnographically, not racially. So, no.
Mar 19th 2015
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      one could argue that's a luxury that isn't afforded to certain minoritie...
Mar 19th 2015
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           quite true - which is why everyone's respective identity
Mar 19th 2015
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I agree w/ Sarah Bellum & fluidity analysis doesn't address structural ...
Mar 19th 2015
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maybe i'm not understanding the question
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RE: maybe i'm not understanding the question
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There is this kind of wrapped up discussion in lit, Larsen, Baldwin, et ...
Mar 20th 2015
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