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"What is the distinguishing difference between transgender & transrace?"


          

Moreover - if you support the exploratory process, plight, and rights of trans-gendered people, why do you mock and belittle those who identify as transracial?

I'm not particularly interested in the conservative opinion here, whereby they think transgendered *and* transracial are silly concepts not worthy of equal rights under the law.

I'm more interested in the progressive opinion - whereby in one respect, the cause of transgendered people is championed, yet on the flip side, the mere mention of transracial is a crime worthy of condemnation and clowning.

Do tell.

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wait, transrace is a thing now?
Jun 12th 2015
1
the concept has been here for quite some time.
Jun 12th 2015
2
      are we talking passing? or one drop?
Jun 12th 2015
10
      Just as with gender identity, there isn't one answer.
Jun 12th 2015
14
           and im not looking for one answer
Jun 12th 2015
41
      White folks & Asians been trans-racial since the birth of hip-hop
Apr 14th 2019
585
I've been trying to grapple with this for a while now
Jun 12th 2015
3
RE: I've been trying to grapple with this for a while now
Jun 12th 2015
4
      but see then you're making race about genetics.
Jun 12th 2015
7
           so race is more about history than one's actual ethnic makeup?
Jun 12th 2015
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                I wonder.....
Jun 12th 2015
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                What is an "actual ethnic make up" if not an expression of history?
Jun 12th 2015
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                     Certainly, history is integral to identity.
Jun 12th 2015
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                     No, because sexuality doesn't function the way race does.
Jun 12th 2015
28
                          So....
Jun 12th 2015
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                               I'm a part of the race is a social construct crowd.
Jun 12th 2015
34
                                    hmmmm
Jun 12th 2015
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                                    Actually two black people can have an asian baby
Jun 15th 2015
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                                         Actually no they can't.
Jun 18th 2015
512
                                    This still minimizes male privilege and patriarchy
Jun 12th 2015
40
                                         Yep. You're right on all counts here.
Jun 12th 2015
44
                     ok, this is a good articulation
Jun 12th 2015
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                          true. that's a part of it that i still haven't quite be able to reconcil...
Jun 12th 2015
31
Because race is an expression of privilege...
Jun 12th 2015
5
Male privilege doesn't exist in a top-down patriarchal structure?
Jun 12th 2015
6
A white woman is still more privileged that a blk man
Jun 12th 2015
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      ^^^^^
Jun 12th 2015
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      not entirely true.
Jun 12th 2015
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           Trans-racial is just as non exist an as post black
Jun 12th 2015
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                depends on what somebody means by "trans-racial"
Jun 12th 2015
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                     Post racial doesn't mean racism is over
Jun 12th 2015
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                          RE: Post racial doesn't mean racism is over
Jun 12th 2015
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                               RE: Post racial doesn't mean racism is over
Jun 12th 2015
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                                    we will have to agree to disagree on a number of issues
Jun 13th 2015
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                                         Race and gender are two separate things.
Jun 13th 2015
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                                              for sure, but what distinguishes them from each other as "trans" theorie...
Jun 13th 2015
180
male privilege is fake now?
Jun 12th 2015
9
Well stated.
Jun 12th 2015
11
Not really.
Jun 12th 2015
16
      and they'd be wrong, but we have evidence of the contrary.
Jun 12th 2015
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           what evidence is this?
Jun 15th 2015
235
i reject in totality that Black ppl are "below" anybody
Jun 12th 2015
15
what are we able to take from them?
Jun 12th 2015
38
.
Jun 12th 2015
17
Iin a lot of ways, "transracial" is an extreme expression of white privi...
Jun 12th 2015
33
Agreed.
Jun 12th 2015
35
this^^^
Jun 12th 2015
42
PREACH
Jun 12th 2015
45
I mean, I guess. But what about all the B/black people who
Jun 12th 2015
47
Most black ppl who have passed or do passed ARE part white...
Jun 15th 2015
278
so you're invalidating the whole concept based on one scenario?
Jun 12th 2015
62
You say that in contrast to how a transgendered woman is treated?
Jun 12th 2015
73
that same trans woman will also likely be taking hormone treatments
Jun 12th 2015
124
      #actually
Jun 13th 2015
142
High kicks!
Jun 12th 2015
96
..aaaaaannnnd SEEN.
Jun 15th 2015
254
      or scene
Jun 16th 2015
395
He's RIGHT!
Jun 12th 2015
He's RIGHT!
Jun 12th 2015
39
i get confused for conservative on this topic but i'm not
Jun 12th 2015
20
Well there's this:
Jun 12th 2015
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That seems to be the crux of those who reject transgendered people:
Jun 12th 2015
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A lot of these ambiguities spring up because...
Jun 12th 2015
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Yes, I think this is a great point.
Jun 12th 2015
25
good post.
Jun 12th 2015
36
the black/Black dustups actually make sense in this scenario
Jun 12th 2015
43
I wonder what would happen if the idea of race was erased...
Jun 12th 2015
104
right, which is why there is room for fluidity re: 'black identity'
Jun 12th 2015
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      RE: right, which is why there is room for fluidity re: 'black identity'
Jun 15th 2015
263
And this is exactly the struggle transgender people are fighting
Jun 12th 2015
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this is pretty much what i came in to post
Jun 12th 2015
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      nah...sloppy science is used for both
Jun 15th 2015
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      it could be argued that gender is but sex isn't
Jun 15th 2015
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The people comparing these two are either white or transphobic.
Jun 12th 2015
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One is culture and the other is biological
Jun 12th 2015
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I am pretty sure you can't distinguish fetuses by race.
Jun 12th 2015
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What would be gender dysphoria for transrace?
Jun 12th 2015
46
the japanese b-stylers
Jun 12th 2015
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Apparently they have theme parks
Jun 12th 2015
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sad face
Jun 12th 2015
51
Jamal, talk white! (c) Kid in House Party 2
Jun 12th 2015
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      oh shit
Jun 12th 2015
54
That girl, Hina, tho.....?
Jun 12th 2015
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sans or with tan?
Jun 12th 2015
55
I would place this in a seperate category based on cultures
Jun 14th 2015
195
      RE: I would place this in a seperate category based on cultures
Jun 14th 2015
227
alright, IF...IF we were to take this goofy ass argument for real...
Jun 12th 2015
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True.
Jun 12th 2015
57
Find someone 50 years ago....
Jun 12th 2015
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      yes but, the act of gender bending has been around forever.
Jun 12th 2015
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What if this was our out?
Jun 12th 2015
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sure, but it's very arbitrary as to when people legitimize identity.
Jun 12th 2015
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sidenote: notice how we champion self-identity in one instance...
Jun 12th 2015
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because it's largely unnecessary
Jun 12th 2015
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RE: because it's largely unnecessary
Jun 12th 2015
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Perhaps it's this simple
Jun 12th 2015
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      RE: Perhaps it's this simple
Jun 12th 2015
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           RE: Perhaps it's this simple
Jun 12th 2015
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                RE: Perhaps it's this simple
Jun 12th 2015
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                     Yah....I anticipated that.
Jun 12th 2015
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you can feel like a woman. feeling black doesn't exist without societal ...
Jun 12th 2015
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why is that left up to you adjudicate and understand?
Jun 12th 2015
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i'm not saying its up to me, i just want to understand how it works.
Jun 12th 2015
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      it's obviously something emerging as an entry to a larger discussion
Jun 12th 2015
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I think yall are wrong saying gender doesn't involve societal context
Jun 12th 2015
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fair enough.
Jun 12th 2015
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There's no way of ever knowing that what you're feeling is woman
Jun 12th 2015
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right. trans is something that can be apparent during childhood
Jun 13th 2015
140
Who are these people who consider themselves transracial?
Jun 12th 2015
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I've asked
Jun 12th 2015
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      I think it's telling that they won't speak in specifics
Jun 12th 2015
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           The reason there aren't specifics is because it's a new concept.
Jun 12th 2015
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                Our specific example is Rachel
Jun 15th 2015
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My question is why are people trying so hard to distinguish the two?
Jun 12th 2015
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This is the most fascinating part of this conversation to me:
Jun 12th 2015
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It just proves my theory that all ppl are self-ish and self-serving
Jun 12th 2015
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I'm seeing a ton of pushback from black and white people on the internet
Jun 12th 2015
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      Well I am talking about a very specific group, Pro-transgendered and ant...
Jun 12th 2015
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      lol right.
Jun 12th 2015
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one deals with gender, one deals with skin color
Jun 12th 2015
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The argument (that we're trying to dismantle)
Jun 12th 2015
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      don't dismantle it, simply ignore it
Jun 12th 2015
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           I don't think it's a waste of time.
Jun 12th 2015
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                i agree with that, however
Jun 12th 2015
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transgender folks are normal & transrace
Jun 12th 2015
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Whatever someone wants to identify as.....
Jun 12th 2015
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being black stymies ANY exploratory process. off rip.
Jun 12th 2015
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One is real and one is racist...
Jun 12th 2015
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I think everyone agrees with you.
Jun 12th 2015
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Nope. Its the same damn thing
Jun 12th 2015
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Total utter self-serving bullshit. One is a thing and the other is not ...
Jun 12th 2015
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Yup.. I was late as fuck on your angle but you are killing it on this is...
Jun 12th 2015
107
Please, you read Ms. Jenners 5 page article
Jun 12th 2015
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      Haven't read it yet. I guess you didn't notice that my position isn't
Jun 12th 2015
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lol wow.
Jun 12th 2015
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      White people wanting to possess blackness is as old as the day is long
Jun 12th 2015
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      predictably, you want to make this about you.
Jun 12th 2015
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      k
Jun 12th 2015
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      How does all you just said, not apply to transgendered?
Jun 12th 2015
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      I agree with all that.
Jun 12th 2015
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      It's the transgenders peeping in the locker room argument lol
Jun 12th 2015
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           Except those are their unfounded fears
Jun 12th 2015
120
                So this lady in the news today is a racist?
Jun 12th 2015
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                There is a high chance she made up fake hate crimes
Jun 12th 2015
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                What makes her racist? Misguided comes to mind but what makes her a raci...
Jun 12th 2015
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                     Well there is the black face part for starters.
Jun 12th 2015
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                          Again, apply your logic to transgender.
Jun 12th 2015
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                               black face and transgender people are not equivalent.
Jun 12th 2015
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                                    If you describe what that lady is doing is blackface then clearly you
Jun 13th 2015
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                                         If this was black face than that is black face
Jun 13th 2015
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                                              It's really weird
Jun 13th 2015
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                                                   it is - and it's also logically bankrupt.
Jun 13th 2015
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                                                        Only if you continue to view this ahistorically
Jun 15th 2015
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I guess I'm still stuck on the individuals being used for comparison
Jun 12th 2015
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But this is only because we knew Jenner beforehand...
Jun 12th 2015
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the major component to passing is secrecy otherwise you're not passing
Jun 12th 2015
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How can one be trans race when one can only be human?
Jun 12th 2015
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to put it this way, i'm not going to deconstruct a turd
Jun 12th 2015
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To answer the ?, they say race isn't scientific but gender is.
Jun 12th 2015
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Also this question from a white supremacist society is some bullshit
Jun 12th 2015
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ya'll niggas, the white and black and others among you, are wild as shit...
Jun 12th 2015
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i understand one and don't understand the other.
Jun 12th 2015
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trans ppl have existed for centuries
Jun 13th 2015
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Buddy and Vex...thank you
Jun 13th 2015
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Too be fair, I don't if I am completely sold on either.
Jun 13th 2015
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Not everybody views that as a good thing.
Jun 13th 2015
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      Things that people say ONLY after integration for $100 Alex.
Jun 15th 2015
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           Garvey said it prior...
Jun 16th 2015
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                How'd that work out for the Garvey-ites?
Jun 16th 2015
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                     Pretty well until integration. What has integration done for
Jun 17th 2015
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she's good as any because you can't be transracial without lying
Jun 13th 2015
149
      Slippery slope.
Jun 13th 2015
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           What part of "performance" is police brutality?
Jun 13th 2015
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I know that we're only loosely basing this thread on Rachel.
Jun 13th 2015
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RE: I know that we're only loosely basing this thread on Rachel.
Jun 13th 2015
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Caitlyn Jenner is DOING exactly what you said she isn't doing.
Jun 13th 2015
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It's simple:
Jun 13th 2015
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      This is called a dinstinction without a difference.
Jun 15th 2015
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That "going natural" bullshit offends me more than any of it really...
Jun 13th 2015
156
there is no difference bc you are who you are...
Jun 13th 2015
155
Melissa-Harris Perry is talking about it
Jun 13th 2015
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Transrace is a new white supremacist buzzword. White privilege
Jun 13th 2015
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lol this is such non-sense, but entertaining non-sense.
Jun 13th 2015
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I outright dismissed "transracialism" when framed by the Jenner situatio...
Jun 13th 2015
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      you dismissed the mere mention of "transrace" as white supremacist jargo...
Jun 13th 2015
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I find it absolutely consistent to dismiss transgenderism and transracia...
Jun 13th 2015
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I'm with what Buddy said ultimately:
Jun 13th 2015
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Man, its so entertaining watching people justify one and not the other.....
Jun 13th 2015
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that's the dangerous crossroads right there.
Jun 13th 2015
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Post 171.
Jun 13th 2015
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      Naw, that post is pretty refutable.
Jun 15th 2015
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People may not like the comparative analysis w/ gender,
Jun 13th 2015
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Potential biological and chemical urges are present in one case
Jun 13th 2015
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this is why:
Jun 13th 2015
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RE: What is the distinguishing difference between transgender & transrac...
Jun 13th 2015
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There's a huge problem in this.
Jun 13th 2015
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yea see, you want to make it about you.
Jun 13th 2015
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Michael Jackson was transgender and transracial
Jun 13th 2015
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Did he identify himself as a woman? I dont recall.
Jun 13th 2015
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lulz
Jun 14th 2015
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Michael Jackson was very clear that he was a Black man
Jun 19th 2015
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and how is this (transrace, i.e.) not cultural appropriation?
Jun 13th 2015
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It is if you think culture can be appropriated. If you think culture can...
Jun 13th 2015
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      so american indians should stop bitching
Jun 14th 2015
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.
Jun 13th 2015
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huffpo article on Dolezal v Caitlyn
Jun 13th 2015
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Started off promising but falls into the same trap.
Jun 13th 2015
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i am so sick of
Jun 15th 2015
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They are both the same in that neither exists.
Jun 13th 2015
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your mistake is thinking social constructs don't exist.
Jun 13th 2015
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They exist the same way black 'super strength' exists
Jun 14th 2015
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      So you don't believe in the Social Construct of 'Money'?
Jun 16th 2015
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           Money has the value of whatever goods or service are attached
Apr 14th 2019
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Where is the "power" in being transgender? My nigga, what are you saying...
Jun 13th 2015
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      The power is in the organizations that pull or grant their sponsorship
Jun 14th 2015
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Would you agree that white supremacy is part of US ideology?
Jun 14th 2015
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Lets say I'm for transrace.. outright lying about your past is that too?
Jun 14th 2015
188
exactly.
Jun 14th 2015
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Go ahead and let the advocates align it with pathological lying
Jun 14th 2015
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heh I'm sayin, is Bruce saying he was a mom who ran against women?
Jun 14th 2015
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she is a pathological liar, she's not "trans race" or any other made up ...
Jun 15th 2015
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I hear but that should apply to transgendered as well. Is
Jun 14th 2015
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#192 e.g. did he say he raised kids as a mom?
Jun 14th 2015
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yea, there have never been cases of trans lying about their sex
Jun 15th 2015
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One is a fraud that requires you lie
Jun 14th 2015
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I think you are confusing transexual and transgender
Jun 15th 2015
257
MHP is talking about it again this morning w/ a panel...
Jun 14th 2015
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Proving?
Jun 14th 2015
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      proving that there is merit in having a broader discussion.
Jun 14th 2015
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           Has Dolezal even identified as trans-racial?
Jun 14th 2015
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                the discussion is really less about her than it is the concept of transr...
Jun 14th 2015
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                     White people have a constitution right to express themselves.
Jun 14th 2015
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                          There's a difference in supporting Dolezal's decision to lie
Jun 17th 2015
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Drop the passive-aggressiveness and state your major premise.
Jun 14th 2015
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so... where do you stand on this?
Jun 14th 2015
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i disagree that transrace & transgender are the same thing.
Jun 15th 2015
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My major premise is that self-identification should have a broader scope
Jun 14th 2015
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it's not valid if you have to make up a new history.
Jun 14th 2015
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      u are letting the example ruin it though
Jun 15th 2015
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I already have, but here's more detail attached on to it:
Jun 14th 2015
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I don't think my point has been addressed yet.
Jun 14th 2015
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this here
Jun 15th 2015
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Niggas aint even trying to be subtle about it.
Jun 14th 2015
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Those who are pro transracial is it okay to identify
Jun 14th 2015
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Why do you have to resort to people transitioning for nefarious reasons?
Jun 14th 2015
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lmao.. thr foxnews fear tactics are hilarious.
Jun 14th 2015
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lol right. We've already been over this.
Jun 14th 2015
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is there a moral / non nefarious reason to outright lie
Jun 14th 2015
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      How's that different from Caitlin or Janet Mock applying for
Jun 14th 2015
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      there's no lie attached
Jun 14th 2015
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           Forget this woman. A white woman who feels in her soul that she is Blac...
Jun 14th 2015
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                I guess I've arrived to a place where this is acceptable.
Jun 14th 2015
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                That's a really good assessment of why the social justice world
Jun 14th 2015
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                     ^excellent points by both you and denny here.
Jun 14th 2015
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                Black/African American means you are a descendant of Africans
Jun 14th 2015
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                     You are too focused on the lie
Jun 14th 2015
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                     I doubt the gender/sex distinction has always been acknowledged everywhe...
Jun 15th 2015
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      Is a transgender lying when they identify as the other sex?
Jun 14th 2015
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           gender does not = biological sex
Jun 14th 2015
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                The hypothetical application elides the two, so the question
Jun 14th 2015
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white privilege >>>>>>> casino money and scholarships
Jun 14th 2015
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      not necessarily. white people in california
Jun 14th 2015
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           right, that's one small advantage in one very limited area
Jun 15th 2015
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transracial is a thing, just not the way you think it is
Jun 14th 2015
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^^^^of course this was ignored
Jun 18th 2015
520
Is it possible for an intersexed person not to be bisexual?
Jun 14th 2015
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I don't think it's a 1:1comparison.
Jun 15th 2015
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Are you implying that Transgenders have different biological
Jun 15th 2015
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      nah, he's saying they visit doctors so it's different
Jun 15th 2015
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      Uh no, I'm saying there's scientific research that has identified
Jun 18th 2015
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           what research? what psychological markers?
Jun 19th 2015
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      I said psychology and hormones.
Jun 18th 2015
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The discourse would improve so much if special care was
Jun 15th 2015
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Also, if we were to try to agree on a similar breakdown
Jun 15th 2015
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This definition of race would disqualify Af-Am as black people
Jun 15th 2015
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      I don't disagree that biological identifiers of race are problematic
Jun 15th 2015
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This implies that trans people are trying to pass as cis...
Jun 15th 2015
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^^^ this is where her story doesn't work for me
Jun 15th 2015
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Again, complete utter bullshit.
Jun 15th 2015
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      Try again...
Jun 15th 2015
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      You're talking like everyone has a Masters degree in gender studies...
Jun 15th 2015
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      I get that not everyone pays attention to these issues
Jun 15th 2015
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      You sayin that transwomen don't describe themselves as "women"?
Jun 15th 2015
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           They describe themselves as trans women.
Jun 15th 2015
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           Yep yep.
Jun 15th 2015
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           i have known a few trans men and women.
Jun 15th 2015
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                The ones I've known/know freely identify themselves.
Jun 15th 2015
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                     i agree.
Jun 15th 2015
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                     Agreed
Jun 15th 2015
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      a lot of people have this view
Jun 15th 2015
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           Did you read the article you posted?
Jun 15th 2015
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                you really can't be this stupid in real life
Jun 15th 2015
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                     Are YOU this stupid?
Jun 15th 2015
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A+ post would read again
Jun 15th 2015
249
She resigned. (very short swipe)
Jun 15th 2015
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smart move.
Jun 15th 2015
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after reading the post: one is made-up and the other is real
Jun 15th 2015
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All social constructs are made up. That's why it's a social construct.
Jun 15th 2015
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no, im very clear on what i mean
Jun 15th 2015
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      Transrace has been a term used alot with people of one race
Jun 15th 2015
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           in the context of this house that rachel built?
Jun 15th 2015
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                Today? Maybe. Tomorrow? I think it might be.
Jun 15th 2015
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                     LOL, yall are so pressed. "Tomorrow transclass might be a thing!"
Jun 15th 2015
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                          *Kanye shrug* All types of things might become normal in
Jun 15th 2015
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                               Like bestiality, right?
Jun 15th 2015
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                                    I think that's an oversimplification of what's being discussed here.
Jun 15th 2015
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                                    Let him have his fun, it makes him feel better.
Jun 15th 2015
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                                    Let's get beyond "what" and talk about "who."
Jun 15th 2015
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                                         I've never met one.
Jun 15th 2015
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                                         Meeting one isn't a prerequisite for discussing an example.
Jun 15th 2015
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                                              Agreed.
Jun 15th 2015
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                                                   LOL.
Jun 15th 2015
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                                         From what I've read, alot are transracial adoptees
Jun 15th 2015
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                                              Now we're getting somewhere.
Jun 15th 2015
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                                                   Lol, I literally never heard of it until last week.
Jun 15th 2015
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                                                        This clearly explains why you kept relying on fictional scenarios
Jun 15th 2015
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                                                             Oh, ok.
Jun 15th 2015
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                                                             *dancehall horns*
Jun 16th 2015
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                                    lol. Yup.
Jun 15th 2015
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                                    You don't need to fear that transrace might cause people to turn
Jun 15th 2015
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                                         And you don't need to fear the transclassers. Or the beastiality mvmt.
Jun 15th 2015
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                                              You're probably right - I don't detect much of a threat from either of
Jun 15th 2015
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several
Jun 15th 2015
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      she sued howard for white discrimination? wtf?
Jun 15th 2015
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      oh my lord.
Jun 15th 2015
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      Bingo. Reply #188
Jun 15th 2015
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           are you saying your dusty approval isnt needed for transracial?
Jun 16th 2015
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                Yep. These transracial people in your imagination don't need my approval
Jun 16th 2015
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here is the thing. Rachel is no Rosa Park (and definitely not a saint)....
Jun 15th 2015
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You aren't being intellectually honest.
Jun 15th 2015
277
Someone wrote a think piece complimenting her do's to boot
Jun 15th 2015
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the hair is the best example to me.
Jun 15th 2015
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So I guess you find weaves deceptive too huh?
Jun 15th 2015
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      what if she sued Howard University for racial discrimination?
Jun 15th 2015
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           What do you know about Howard? If being mad at Howard about how you
Jun 16th 2015
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OK, but can we be clear about something? She IS a FRAUD.
Jun 15th 2015
283
I think they gave someone jail time here
Jun 15th 2015
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Do you think she is a fraud because of her appearance?
Jun 16th 2015
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heres the thing with that
Jun 15th 2015
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I'M CHINESE NOW.
Jun 15th 2015
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same trap though.
Jun 15th 2015
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but technology still doesn't allow for it 100%
Jun 15th 2015
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      Fine.
Jun 15th 2015
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But you don't need mechanisms to change from one race to another.
Jun 15th 2015
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      Okay. SHAZAM. Now you're White. Thank me later.
Jun 16th 2015
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lolz. if it weren't for okp...
Jun 15th 2015
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what's the agenda behind making this non-thing into a thing?
Jun 15th 2015
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an attempt to paint transgender advocates into a corner
Jun 15th 2015
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I would embrace transracial if it gives bi/multiracial people a voice
Jun 15th 2015
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sure. but that's not what's going on.
Jun 15th 2015
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      but now that its out there, can it be steered in a legitimate direction?
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      probably not.
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           so then someone like my Grandmother is?
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                sure.
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      right, but...
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yep, anybody tying this to caitlyn jenner is telling on themself
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      That's not really true at all. Go back to the original Jenner posts.
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           well, hold on a minute...
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           And here we have it
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                i have never hid my hand on OKP, it is a slippery slope... and you are s...
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                I know, but Buddy misrepresented your position. Shame on him.
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                     so you admit its up to us to decide if we accept self identity? cool
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                Conversation is going 360 because that leads us back to why not let RQ
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                     true, i feel as tho if you ride for one why wouldnt you ride for the oth...
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                     you want us to ride for something that does not exist?
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                     I think that Rachel is a liar who knows she is white.
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                     CJ hasn't engaged in fraud as RD has.
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                          Yep yep
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           'the progressive position' <-- *eyes roll*
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                there is a lot of Fox News language from BOTH sides on this issue
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                     uh huh.
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the agenda of the op is bit more...personal methinks...but I'll leave it...
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      and Blacks arent making it personal in regards to Rachel?
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      what are u even replying to? certainly not what i wrote because
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           lmao.. yall are hilarious in here
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                huh? Who is yall? I'm not transgender or 'transracial'? So again what
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                     theatre major? why so dramatic
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                          yeah as I thought, just say u were wrong and pressed
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                               nah, just realized you got a whole lotta bitch in u bruh, 64 oz large gu...
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                                    stop tough typing on the internet and reply 398
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                                         that isn't tough talk if it's the truth
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      seen and agree
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why does everyone continue to mention white supremacy
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this.
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Because the conversation isn't just about being transsexual?
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Because its about a white woman that pretending to be black?
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Jelani Cobb went in re: "Rachel Dolezal and Our Lies About Race"
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I'm actually glad we're having this kind of uncomfortable...
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There's one huge caveat to that statement, we didn't "create" transgende...
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      I'm sure transgender had to face something every day before changing
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           you're confusing sexuality and gender.
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           What you have to keep in mind is...
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                interesting break down
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                so gender is more than a social construct?
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                     Research on the subject is relatively new, but yes.
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                          this is why it's so problematic
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BTW, if RD does one of those ancestry.com DNA tests and turns out to be
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nope
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      can I be white?
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           Knock yourself out. Self-identify however you like. That doesn't mean
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           how do I go about "acting" white once I've transitioned?
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                IDK. you decided you wanted to self-identify so present it how you see
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                     I don't wanna "self-identify". I wanna be white!
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           i dont know... i guess, it would probably be an uphill battle tho
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*keeps unpopular opinion to self*
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LOL, dont be scurred, its been civil
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      the world is a shit show
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           That's an interesting angle I haven't heard yet.
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                i just feel like people are who and what they are.
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                i agree
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                me too, you summed up stance in one sentence
Jun 16th 2015
                me too, you summed up stance in one sentence
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                I can't speak for Nika, but I view it like this...
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                     I know some lite skint Black people in Charlotte who dont identify as Bl...
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                     Here's the thing, though...
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                          but... what about when society sees a women who is clearly a man?
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                               I get how that can be rough...
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                     What about the M2F who clearly presents as a Male though?
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                          I can understand how it may be jarring...
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No difference except one is the agenda of popular culture
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cards on the table: who here actually identifies or wants to identify as
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I considered my friend Black. She considered herself "bi-racial"
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that's not 'transrace'.
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How are you distinguishing trans-racial and bi-racial issues.
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easily.
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my wife has a friend who is white, she was born and raised in japan
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      based on that she's not part of this discussion.
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           why not?
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                b/c nothing in that told me how SHE identifies.
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                     my wife says she is japanese... we debated for a while about it
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                          *shrugs*
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                               sure
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                                    'Japanese' is not a racial identity.
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                                         he's extremely dumb...like seriously
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                                         Until you let that bitch in you, walk up out you.. don't speak to me
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                                              ...that reply wasn't to you.
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                                                   sure it wasn't
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                                         lol, true.. but you knew what I meant.
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                                              i did and that's why i said from the top she has no place
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This supports the idea that race isn't intrinsic
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Exactly, I was wrong to try to insist on some biological basis. Clearly
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      But there's a biological basis for gender and orientation...
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           Sure there is a biological basis for orientation, but what about gender?
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           The same...
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                Come one yo, your source talks about Disorders of gender identity.
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                     So, you're ignoring the part where I said research is new?
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           Race is based on biological features as well. It's just that
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                The interpretation of those biological features...
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                     Would you disagree that 'feeling black' is part of a shared
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                          Absolutely
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                               Hm, interesting. I think this is where we disagree then.
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                                    I'm not sure where we differ based on your statement.
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                                         Sorry about that, you're right. I definitely stopped short.
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no, she was regarded as 0.5, or pointy as we call it
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      He thought he was going to pull a fast one on us.
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      lol! how did i miss this
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      She told me she was regarded as white. You saying she lying?
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           yes,
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                maybe I mis-remember, maybe she lied (I doubt it), maybe she encountered
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                     categorically no
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                          Ohh I am suppose to categorically believe you now based on your last pos...
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                               believe whatever you want to believe
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lol, no.
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If we were to characterize "transrace" as
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      no.
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           Lol! Well thanks for setting me on the straight and narrow :)
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           'maintains ___ ethnicity'
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                In particular not Michael fucking Jackson.
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                yup. very much so.
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                Lol! Yall are so dramatic in here. Look,
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                Alright, I see you.
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                     great.
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           show your work
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                *pats head*
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                     ric, don't accept this shit.
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I've seen so many jokes this week about "trans"
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LMFAO. Truth be told, there's really no end to this "self-identify
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Crissle from The Read has a special message for this post:
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I'm listening to it now. She's on point, as usual.
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DAMN!
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HUNDALASILIAH!!
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Elon James White & team have a special message for this post:
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If I was trying to prove this was an agenda, I'd ask who first described...
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Why must there even be an agenda?
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      I hear you. And I agree. I am just thinking out loud cause I can't deny ...
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      Lol, of course. I wasn't coming at you (or anyone) specifically
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      There doesn't have to be, but there is
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      Seen.
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      You are wise and intelligent
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      beautifully articulated. thanks for that.
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Kareem talkin' bout it (TIME mag swipe)
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Kareem hates the transgendered because he dared...
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whatever happened to being happy with the uniform that god gave you?
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we're way too self-indulgent and narcissistic for that nonsense.
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Damn. et tu Nika?
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      ?
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absolutely.
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not possible
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1) everyone doesn't believe in god
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      this is/was the same argument made against transsexuals/transgenders
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           there's enough evidence that says transgender life is valid
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                still a similar argument
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I am noticing a trend on FB, my friends with the most identity issues
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interesting
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For me, FB has been surprisingly quiet...
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LOL
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'we need allies, not replacements' the daily show
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and there it is.
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Agreed
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akon & blkprincemd: What exactly is my "agenda"?
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transracial isnt a thing and never will be
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We've already discussed that.
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      Than the topic is closed.
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you couldve just responsed under what is the agenda post
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you mentioned that you 'agreed' that there was a specific agenda at play
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      your motivation is very clear, your agenda... we still waiting
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           you say it's 'very clear' yet you can't even say what it is.
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                have the decency to leave this alone today.
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                     I'm not leaving it alone - I'm actively working to combat it.
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                          k.
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                          I think we have the same friend.
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                               RE: I think we have the same friend.
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It's pretty clear
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To me it's because it's possible to be born intersex
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Sandra Laing?
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      Didn't she have some unknown African ancestor though?
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           the assumption is that she must have
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                Yeah, but in South Africa
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                     japan and korea?
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                          The original example yes
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the difference:
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Transgender is likely biologically programmed
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Transgender is more likely imaginary.
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      fairly condident you arent qualified to make that kind of assessment
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           i've done some and it still appears pretty damn inconclusive
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                when you ppl have a better transrace example than Rachel D
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                     MJ and Sammy Sosa?
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                          MJ didn't just NOT claim white. He vehemently claimed Black.
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                          nope and nope.
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                               Why, in this perspective, does the claimed race identity
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                               Race is not subjective.
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                                    You have not resolved the logical flaws in this perspective.
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                                         Michael Jackson got treated like a nigga.
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                                              Some great points, but this is what you are not going to do:
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                               Also, once you get into 'living as a black man' you are veering
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500+ posts on a fictitious group of people and their
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fictitious vs theoretical
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theoretical vs. actual
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      today's actual was yesterday's theoretical
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           and yesterday's actual is today's okayplayer
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           No.
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           There have been... On TV even, but we collectively said
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                Its crazy how dismissive they are on this subject
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                because your phobias are peeping
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                     smh, I'm not going to talk about Charelston in this thread.
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                          the deflection exercises are astounding. Lot of mad & wrong posturing.
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                               I would expect you to intereptet things that way.
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                                    thanks for that awesome insight, Mike. Keep hiding behind an alias.
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                                         Reply #555
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                I'm sure you think so.
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           today's theoretical is not yesterday's or today's actual.
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Why are there +500 posts?
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      actually
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i've been turning Japanese since I was 11.
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my blacker than black dinka brethren put ash on their bodies
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forget the reasons for the need for a black is beautiful movement
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      RE: forget the reasons for the need for a black is beautiful movement
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      why object now?
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      Alright, so can you please propose alternative explanations for
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           blah blah, white supremacy, blah blah making their appearance ideal
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           Lol I specifically asked for alternative explanations NOT
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           Find one who actually LIVED as a white person and you might have a point...
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right? these females claim they were turning male since they were kids
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Race is not a subjective experience.
Jun 20th 2015
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that's cute.
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      Evidence would prove otherwise.
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video related
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after this week I didn't wanna be Black no more and now I see my way out...
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      These people know exactly how you feel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qe4AZRk...
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lmao.
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It's been a useful thread for me.
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Who are those?
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Those japanese who think they are black
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race is only 200 years old and is a result of cultural insecurity
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One is backed by fake hebrews
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They aren't ready
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My ninja, aintchu eva heard of Babysteps?
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One is real, has been occurring in virtually every culture and the other
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That approach we wouldn't acknowledge race which is only a few
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      Are you TRYING to be dumb at this point?
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      The best argument I've seen, which someone made above, is that
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when the police pull me over can I identify as white?
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1. "wait, transrace is a thing now?"
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http://perspectivesudans.blogspot.com/
i myself would never want to be god,or even like god.Because god got all these human beings on this planet and i most certainly would not want to be responsible for them, or even have the disgrace that i made them.

  

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2. "the concept has been here for quite some time."
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10. "are we talking passing? or one drop?"
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and what does it mean to be white and feel that they are in the wrong skin
do they mean they feel they are maasai? or korowai?
is it skin is it culture?

is it biracial and choosing what side you fall on?

is it the priviledge of embracing something as an outsider looking in?



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http://perspectivesudans.blogspot.com/
i myself would never want to be god,or even like god.Because god got all these human beings on this planet and i most certainly would not want to be responsible for them, or even have the disgrace that i made them.

  

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14. "Just as with gender identity, there isn't one answer."
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It's within the realm of sovereign individuality and what may
be true for one person, isn't for another.

I don't think you can look at two transgendered people and ask
them these types of questions in order to ascertain a consensus
on what it means to be in a woman's body but to feel like you are a man, per se.

Alike, I would imagine people who identify as "trans-racial" all have different
experiences distinguishable from one another that brings them to a place
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41. "and im not looking for one answer"
In response to Reply # 14


  

          

i hope its quite clear that i dont understand this concept
outside of the story of this white woman
and even in that story i havent seen her explain what it means to be black
(except i guess being a (supposed) target of racial crimes. that's not a black identity. thats a consequence of)
so when someone says they feel that they are in the wrong race
and e.g if embracing black, are they saying they feel they are geechee?
creole?
or are they assuming a black american identity is just skin colour?
or a maasai just likes to wear red in the savannah?

i dont understand what sovereign individuality means.
perhaps you can give some examples tranrace people describing what their dysmorphia is.

and the reason i am not equating it to the transsexual identity is because i think i understand what that means
for some its the physical, for others its the physical and societal
for others it may just be the societal (definition of gender)

>where they reject normative racial identity.

which is?

.
http://perspectivesudans.blogspot.com/
i myself would never want to be god,or even like god.Because god got all these human beings on this planet and i most certainly would not want to be responsible for them, or even have the disgrace that i made them.

  

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585. "White folks & Asians been trans-racial since the birth of hip-hop"
In response to Reply # 2


  

          

Pretty sure VEX can attest to this just like most of his fellow NYC hipsters.

WHAT'S GOOD *****? What's REALLY good?!?!????!!! Ha HA!
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3. "I've been trying to grapple with this for a while now"
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And I still don't have it completely worked out. But I race is about ancestry. It's about history. There isn't really room for fluidity in ancestry.


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4. "RE: I've been trying to grapple with this for a while now"
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>And I still don't have it completely worked out. But I race
>is about ancestry. It's about history. There isn't really room
>for fluidity in ancestry.

Why not? Is it not the case the overwhelming majority of us are comprised of a plethora of ancestral lineages dating back to our very first, original humanoid ancestors? Isn't that - as a matter of DNA composition - evidence of an ethnic fluidity within our DNA?

I would argue there's more empirical evidence to support a transracial theory than a transgender theory - although I consider transgendered to be absolutely legitimate because it is my belief that regardless of what sex you are born as (male/female) - you are comprised of both masculine and feminine principles - but this is much more difficult to empirically demonstrate than that of a simple DNA tests which proves the "racial"/ethnic fluidity of a human.


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7. "but see then you're making race about genetics."
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and that's kinda what I'm arguing against.

It's about history. Who are my people. Where do they come from. What's their history.

Because since we know that there are more genetic differences within races than between them, once you bring that kind of science into it, it falls apart.

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8. "so race is more about history than one's actual ethnic makeup?"
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12. "I wonder....."
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Fri Jun-12-15 01:01 PM by denny

          

is part of the problem the distinction between race and culture? I mean....what does it mean to say 'I feel like a black man'. Isn't that a way of saying "I identify with black culture". It doesn't mean 'I think I have black skin"

I guess it doesn't provide the distinction you're looking for though. A transmale does not say 'I think I have a vagina'. They say "I identify with the gender roles that have been assigned to people with vaginas".

I don't know. I can't make the distinction. I tried to tackle it from a couple angles and have to admit....kept coming up blank.

I imagine that the lbgt community has language that differentiates between gender and race identities. I'd like to hear it too.

  

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13. "What is an "actual ethnic make up" if not an expression of history?"
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Fri Jun-12-15 01:03 PM by Hitokiri

  

          

Maybe another way to put this is that two white people can have a baby. That baby can be male/boy, female/girl, can be intersex, can be somewhere in between. And it's perhaps reasonable to believe that somewhere along the line, something didn't quite line up the way that person feels they should.

But

Two white people cannot make a black baby. They cannot because their parents were not black, who can't because their parents were not black. Etc.

Like I said, I'm still grappling with this and it's articulation. But I think what I'm getting at is perhaps that gender identity is intrinsic or that it comes solely from within a person. There is a piece of racial identity that is instrinsic and comes from within, but a whole lot more of it is historical "baggage" so to speak. Race is expression of those two things and therefore isn't as fluid.

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22. "Certainly, history is integral to identity."
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>Maybe another way to put this is that two white people can
>have a baby. That baby can be male/boy, female/girl, can be
>intersex, can be somewhere in between. And it's perhaps
>reasonable to believe that somewhere along the line, something
>didn't quite line up the way that person feels they should.
>
>But
>
>Two white people cannot make a black baby. They cannot because
>their parents were not black, who can't because their parents
>were not black. Etc.

I'm not sure I quite follow where you're going with this. If we're saying that
a person's claim to being "transracial" is invalid because both parents are considered to be of one "race", does that mean that a gay persons's claim to being gay is invalid if their parents
are both heterosexual?

The idea of 'transracial' challenges the black/white radicalization dynamic at its root,
so it would reject those as grossly simplistic and insufficient in order to accurately portray one's own composition. In other words, to say that one's parents are simply 'black' or 'white' is insufficient as it doesn't account for the myriad of lineages that likely are found within that person's DNA that do not fit into square boxes of 'black' and 'white'.



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28. "No, because sexuality doesn't function the way race does."
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To straight people can have a gay baby. Two gay people can have a straight baby. We know these things to be true.

But again, because race is historical, two black people cannot make an Asian baby.

and to get to the second part. We live in a white supremacist society in which ones race has meaning, history, a lived experience, and material realities. I don't think transracial challenges the black/white "radicalization dynamic" in any way in that it's not challenging the white supremacist power structure of most of the world. So if one is "trans racial" and saying "I feel black" what is it that you're really saying that you feel? Again, I think you're putting race far too much into DNA and genetics and leaving out the history, which I would argue is the more important piece of it.

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29. "So...."
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The distinction is that race is empirical and quantifiable. Whereas gender is not.

I'm thinking that's the answer....not sure what it's gonna mean for the 'race is a social construct' crowd.

  

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34. "I'm a part of the race is a social construct crowd."
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But most of us (to my knowledge) also agree that while race is a social construct, there are material benefits/consequences for ones race. We have made those real.

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37. "hmmmm"
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If two black people can't have an asian baby....it seems on first glance that race can't be a social construct.

  

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284. "Actually two black people can have an asian baby "
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Black people as a whole (meaning globally) have all the traits to create a child that could be classified as Asian.

In theory two white people could as well. Because Asian is not a race. It is a collection of physical traits which have some degree of variance i.e. skin color, hair texture, etc.

This is yet another example of how race is really just a term/practice/system meant to divide people.

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512. "Actually no they can't."
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>In theory two white people could as well.

attillah, i agree with you... in theory. in theory, communism works. in theory.

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40. "This still minimizes male privilege and patriarchy "
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>But most of us (to my knowledge) also agree that while race
>is a social construct, there are material
>benefits/consequences for ones race. We have made those real.

But u have articulated a key distinction.
Race though man-made does have a dependent relationship on lineage. But then what about mixed kids? They may or may not experience the historical context of their given lineage often based on self-identification and physical appearance. Physical appearance also has a close relationship with race which makes it murky again.

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44. "Yep. You're right on all counts here."
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I can't add anything more, or refute any of what you just said.

Race is messy.

I am minimalizing patriarchy.

I think I would need to consult a feminist woc to help me flesh this all out more.

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23. "ok, this is a good articulation"
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the only oversight is that there is in historical baggage in regards to gender as well

patriarchy

but you make a good point

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31. "true. that's a part of it that i still haven't quite be able to reconcil..."
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i'm working on it though.

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5. "Because race is an expression of privilege..."
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...in that I can culturally appropriate from races from further down the privilege pyramid, but they can't appropriate back upward, whereas transgender is a lateral transition that can go either way.

The norms and mores surrounding race are also profoundly different than those of gender, despite overlap and similarities.

  

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6. "Male privilege doesn't exist in a top-down patriarchal structure?"
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>The norms and mores surrounding race are also profoundly
>different than those of gender, despite overlap and
>similarities.

For sure - they aren't exactly the same by any stretch. But there is a power dynamic of privilege embedded in both gender and race.


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19. "A white woman is still more privileged that a blk man"
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>>The norms and mores surrounding race are also profoundly
>>different than those of gender, despite overlap and
>>similarities.
>
>For sure - they aren't exactly the same by any stretch. But
>there is a power dynamic of privilege embedded in both gender
>and race.
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32. "^^^^^"
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59. "not entirely true."
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A black man has generally held privileged positions of power before white women. See: Supreme Court Justices, U.S. Presidents, powerful positions within the papacy/church, CEOs etc..)

But ok - let's say that's conceded, so what?

That doesn't invalidate the legitimacy of trans-racial identity.

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65. "Trans-racial is just as non exist an as post black"
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And I'm going to disagree that blk men are more privileged than white women. Blk men have been lynched so looking, being near and sometimes innocently murdered bc of how much white men value white women more than blk men.

  

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72. "depends on what somebody means by "trans-racial""
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if by "trans-racial" they mean "racism is over" - then yea, that's just an absurd concept and ceases to have any meaning.

if by "trans-racial" - they mean moving beyond conventional models of race classification in an attempt provide more robust and expansive models of self-identification - then that has validity (scientifically, socially, and culturally).

>And I'm going to disagree that blk men are more privileged
>than white women. Blk men have been lynched so looking, being
>near and sometimes innocently murdered bc of how much white
>men value white women more than blk men.

For sure - but you said "privileged." Privilege tends to refer to power/opportunity/access to positions of power/prestige - and black men have attained positions of power and risen on the ladder of hierarchal power within authoritative positions before white women in many instances in this country. But if we're talking about who is profiled and subjected to racism and prejudice? Obviously it's not even a debate.


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78. "Post racial doesn't mean racism is over"
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Post racial is more about race not being a determining factor but still acknowledging that race exists.

I personally don't believe in it as it's pretty self referential. The problem with this woman is that she took generalizations of what it means to be a blk women and that was stupid and short sighted. Her definition is so limiting. And at the end of the day she can run back to her whiteness and be ok. Same with anyone who's white that grew up around mostly blk folks. They might culturally identify as blk but they aren't ethnically and will not be treated as such in society.

It's easy to say that we are conventional to ideas of race when you're in a position of privilege and you are the majority. When we are given equal citizenship perhaps we can talk about fluidity.

  

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80. "RE: Post racial doesn't mean racism is over"
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>The problem with this woman is that she took
>generalizations of what it means to be a blk women and that
>was stupid and short sighted. Her definition is so limiting.

What was her definition?

>And at the end of the day she can run back to her whiteness
>and be ok. Same with anyone who's white that grew up around
>mostly blk folks. They might culturally identify as blk but
>they aren't ethnically and will not be treated as such in
>society.

well first of all, what does "ethnically black" even mean? Black
is not an ethnicity. Also, Rachel was considered to be racially black - because in America - we consider a wide range of hues/skin tones/features to be within the parameters of "black". Further, If we're saying that it's even possible to culturally identify with being 'black' then that's an admission that it's a concept amenable to fluidity.

As for her "running back to her whiteness" - what experience do you have with being perceived as 'white', identifying w/ something else - and then 'running back to whiteness'? How do you know what that's like such that you are qualified to speak on that? And you say that they "will not be treated as black in society." Well, wasn't Rachel Dolezal treated as "black" until this morning?

>It's easy to say that we are conventional to ideas of race
>when you're in a position of privilege and you are the
>majority. When we are given equal citizenship perhaps we can
>talk about fluidity.

Interestingly - this argument is never used in a trans-gender analysis. Meaning, I don't hear you (or others in this thread) saying things like: "it's easy to say we are being conventional about gender when you're in a position of privilege. When women are afforded equal rights in society then we will talk about gender fluidity."

Yet, women still aren't treated as equal and are subjected to patriarchal hierarchy and conventionalism, but that doesn't stop us from exercising a fluidity analysis as it pertains to gender.


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137. "RE: Post racial doesn't mean racism is over"
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>>The problem with this woman is that she took
>>generalizations of what it means to be a blk women and that
>>was stupid and short sighted. Her definition is so limiting.
>
>What was her definition?

um, really? look at her. look at how she chose to represent herself, braids, headwrap, going "natural."

>
>well first of all, what does "ethnically black" even mean?
>Black
>is not an ethnicity. Also, Rachel was considered to be
>racially black - because in America - we consider a wide range
>of hues/skin tones/features to be within the parameters of
>"black". Further, If we're saying that it's even possible to
>culturally identify with being 'black' then that's an
>admission that it's a concept amenable to fluidity.

Black IS an ethnicity, i don't know why you would think it wasn't. we have a shared experience that is unique to us. rachel was considered to be racially black because that's how she presented herself and that's what she told people she was. she darkened her skin, put in braids, headwraps, all physical dressings that are associated with (but not representative of all) blk women.you are confusing culture with ethnicity, they are two different things. my husband is culturally american (and blk american) but he is ethnically blk w/roots from the south. white folks are always trying to define what black is to black people.
>
>As for her "running back to her whiteness" - what experience
>do you have with being perceived as 'white', identifying w/
>something else - and then 'running back to whiteness'? How do
>you know what that's like such that you are qualified to speak
>on that? And you say that they "will not be treated as black
>in society." Well, wasn't Rachel Dolezal treated as "black"
>until this morning?
>
please don't act obtuse about this. you are seriously going to tell me that if she took off the black face she wouldn't be treated like a white woman? she was treated as blk BECAUSE SHE PRESENTED HERSELF THAT WAY. she's a pathological liar. she lied about her brother being her son. she made all kinds of crazy tweets making statements about being a blk woman and being discriminated against. that chick has mental health issues.

and yes, i AM qualified to speak on this as i know what it is to be a black woman. what seems to be ignored is that she is making a mockery of blk women.

>>It's easy to say that we are conventional to ideas of race
>>when you're in a position of privilege and you are the
>>majority. When we are given equal citizenship perhaps we can
>>talk about fluidity.
>"
>
>Yet, women still aren't treated as equal and are subjected to
>patriarchal hierarchy and conventionalism, but that doesn't
>stop us from exercising a fluidity analysis as it pertains to
>gender.
>
>
transgender and transracial can no way be compared, and is in fact and insult to transgender people. to use my husband's example, if i were raised deserted island, i'd 1.still be a woman and 2. wouldn't be blk. that categorization is only true when i'm in a society of people that have chosen to define me that way because they see white as the default, when it can't be.

and we are going to have to agree to disagree because i still think white women are still have more privilege and power than blk men.

  

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154. "we will have to agree to disagree on a number of issues"
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which is fine...

but note: nobody is trying to tell people how they should feel or self-categorize, except perhaps a number of people in this post telling this woman Rachel how she should feel and how she should self-identity.

The irony is that those same people stand in defense of transgendered people to have the open, creative space to self-identity and feel the way they feel, but when it comes to race - it's an entirely different philosophical process.

It's an interesting discussion - and perhaps not yet ripe enough to be made sense of on a larger, societal scale.

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178. "Race and gender are two separate things. "
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>which is fine...
>
>but note: nobody is trying to tell people how they should
>feel or self-categorize, except perhaps a number of people in
>this post telling this woman Rachel how she should feel and
>how she should self-identity.
>
>The irony is that those same people stand in defense of
>transgendered people to have the open, creative space to
>self-identity and feel the way they feel, but when it comes to
>race - it's an entirely different philosophical process.
>
>It's an interesting discussion - and perhaps not yet ripe
>enough to be made sense of on a larger, societal scale.
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180. "for sure, but what distinguishes them from each other as "trans" theorie..."
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9. "male privilege is fake now?"
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16. "Not really."
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A feminist could just as easily say (and have done so) that a man who identifies as a woman can "appropriate from further down the privilege pyramid, but they can't appropriate back upward".

  

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18. "and they'd be wrong, but we have evidence of the contrary."
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235. "what evidence is this?"
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15. "i reject in totality that Black ppl are "below" anybody"
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if you take from us, and we take from you...we still taking from you.

that right there...IS racism


does it really matter?

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33. "Iin a lot of ways, "transracial" is an extreme expression of white privi..."
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because let a nigerian come over here, Didier Drogba his hair and dye it blonde and start telling people he's white.

People from all sides will quickly shoot him down in trying to reap the benefits of whiteness.

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35. "Agreed."
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All the more reason to have distinct language to shoot it down.

  

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47. "I mean, I guess. But what about all the B/black people who "
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*have* passed? They were able to pass because they looked enough like white people to be able to do it, more than anyone granting them anything. I guess you could argue that that's a form of privilege, but it's not, really. I have family who could pass for Asian, if they really wanted to. Before the mid-20th century it was *not* a privilege to be Asian, though.

  

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278. "Most black ppl who have passed or do passed ARE part white..."
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whatever that percentage is, they are part of white, so to claim one race and not the other isn't necessarily the same thing. And to that point, most ppl who passed were doing so to avoid hardships in life...this was prevalent during slave times and immediately
post-slavery. Currently very few people do this and those who do, do so to AVOID discrimination, not to use it as a platform to get more money.

  

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62. "so you're invalidating the whole concept based on one scenario?"
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73. "You say that in contrast to how a transgendered woman is treated?"
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>because let a nigerian come over here, Didier Drogba his hair
>and dye it blonde and start telling people he's white.
>
>People from all sides will quickly shoot him down in trying to
>reap the benefits of whiteness.

A 6'3" dude cuts off his johnson, gets boobs, starts wearing women clothes and tells people he is a woman won't people from MOST sides quickly shoot him in down in trying to reap the benefits of womanhood?


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124. "that same trans woman will also likely be taking hormone treatments"
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so they're going to develop a more female-aligned physiology, save for bottom surgery.

As of current, there's nothing science can do to change your ethnic/racial makeup at that deep of a level. Maybe one day.

  

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142. "#actually"
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>As of current, there's nothing science can do to change your
>ethnic/racial makeup at that deep of a level.

Give it some thought.

  

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96. "High kicks! "
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254. "..aaaaaannnnd SEEN."
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395. "or scene"
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"He's RIGHT!"


          


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"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved."

  

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39. "He's RIGHT!"
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"Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved."

  

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20. "i get confused for conservative on this topic but i'm not"
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i think if we are going to fight for identity as individually-defined in personal and emotional ways...it defeats the (already questionable) purpose of those divisions in the first place

one random small example...transgender MtF woman MMA fighter beat the living brakes off a genetic female woman and it was controversial as hell

that division has purpose and use...to make that division so malleable is problematic imho not bc i care that his genetic male wants to live life as a woman without having to actually face the female life choices that are closely tied to womanhood to some extent

i think both are problematic bc nobody seems capable of letting the divisions go...

i'm ok with the further deterioration (shit, im all for it) of gender roles...and possibly race related cultural traits as well but I think there are societal impacts that should be thought out with less #TEAMConservative and #TEAMProgressive and more balance, pragmatic, and a big-picture rather than an individualist and emotional ideas about how identity should be treated and it's purpose in our society in general

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24. "Well there's this:"
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It's entirely possible that our approach to sexual identity creates scenarios that are ripe for opportunism. (ie the UFC thing) More clearly, just because someone manipulated gender identity to their benefit does not mean that society will not be better off, as a whole, by seeing gender identity as fluid. I guess what I'm saying....a few particular situations and examples should not guide our worldview.

And sports, by their nature, are NEVER 'equal' anyways. Our genes and DNA pre-determine a large majority of it even when gender advantages are neutralized.

  

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27. "That seems to be the crux of those who reject transgendered people:"
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>i think both are problematic bc nobody seems capable of
>letting the divisions go...

The divisions make sense of the world for some people - and in their minds - they think that being 'male' loses meaning when a woman can simply choose to become male.

But is that person correct? I'd say no, they are trying to project their own experience of what it means to be 'male' as what the consensus opinion should be on what's male/masculine < always a recipe for disaster because of how wholly distinctive and individualistic each of us are.

>i'm ok with the further deterioration (shit, im all for it) of
>gender roles...and possibly race related cultural traits as
>well but I think there are societal impacts that should be
>thought out with less #TEAMConservative and #TEAMProgressive
>and more balance, pragmatic, and a big-picture rather than an
>individualist and emotional ideas about how identity should be
>treated and it's purpose in our society in general

Agreed - and it wasn't the best way to phrase the debate (as being conservatism versus progressivism) as that's a duality polarization in itself. However, I do find it interesting when progressives apply wholly different philosophical processes when embracing transgendered rights on one-hand, and flatly rejecting transracial theory on the other.

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21. "A lot of these ambiguities spring up because..."
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..the concept of race doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
We use race as a proxy for ancestry/ethnicity...except
for when we don't. See also the black vs Black dustups here.
That said, if someone wants to identify as black, and they
can get everybody else to view them as black (because
arguably the distinguishing feature of being black in this
country is that everybody else sees you as black), then
it's fine with me. It's not like race is some sacred,
super-scientific designation.

I think in this recent case though, the issue is that
non-crazy people don't tend to do this sort of stuff.

  

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25. "Yes, I think this is a great point."
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>..the concept of race doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
>We use race is as a proxy for ancestry/ethnicity...except
>for when we don't. See also the black vs Black dustups here.
>That said, if someone wants to identify as black, and they
>can get everybody else to view them as black (because
>arguably the distinguishing feature of being black in this
>country is that everybody else sees you as black), then
>it's fine with me. It's not like race is some sacred,
>super-scientific designation.

Right - in fact, how we presently apply "race" via societal census
is decisively unscientific.

>I think in this recent case though, the issue is that
>non-crazy people don't tend to do this sort of stuff.

lol


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36. "good post."
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nm

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43. "the black/Black dustups actually make sense in this scenario"
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with the capital B embracing a cultural and social identity
that is a consequence and result of having lived in a different society
from us continental blacks, who actually dont understand what black as an identity means
(shit, im dinka. there's tribe. that is an embrace of a culture and lineage that the B, who no longer has that
says, well we got a culture and lineage too that we want to distinguish from others
i think that's valid. its not an individualistic claim. its a communal claim.
much like tribe is communal.

>..the concept of race doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
>We use race as a proxy for ancestry/ethnicity...except
>for when we don't.

exactly. in this country it is a proxy for a shared identity - much like we use tribe as a proxy for a shared identity
even when its skin deep. but even within that there are a multitude of sub-communities
black-geechee, black creole or whatever else
and whatever the white equivalent is
so it even ends up not being necessarily skin deep

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104. "I wonder what would happen if the idea of race was erased..."
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...and instead everybody in this country saw each other in
terms of specific ethnic tribes.

Would black tribes and Black tribes still fuck with each other?
Would white tribes and White tribes still fuck with each other?
Would tribalism be as bad as racism?
Or would history repeat itself because for this country race is inevitable?

  

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106. "right, which is why there is room for fluidity re: 'black identity'"
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>
>with the capital B embracing a cultural and social identity
>that is a consequence and result of having lived in a
>different society
>from us continental blacks, who actually dont understand what
>black as an identity means

black in that regard is more of a cultural identifier than a racial one - which is why people like Rachel Dolezal claim association with that cultural identity - whether people deem it legitimate or not. Still, she likely has more familiarity with that identity than a continental african - whom by your own words, "actually doesn't understand what black as an identity means."

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263. "RE: right, which is why there is room for fluidity re: 'black identity'"
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>>
>>with the capital B embracing a cultural and social identity
>>that is a consequence and result of having lived in a
>>different society
>>from us continental blacks, who actually dont understand
>what
>>black as an identity means
>
>black in that regard is more of a cultural identifier than a
>racial one - which is why people like Rachel Dolezal claim
>association with that cultural identity - whether people deem
>it legitimate or not.

it is both a cultural identifier and a racial one. Dolezal claimed associatiton with both.


Still, she likely has more familiarity
>with that identity than a continental african - whom by your
>own words, "actually doesn't understand what black as an
>identity means."

in an academic sense perhaps. but she claimed it as a racial identity as well, which she does not, and can not, have more familiarity with.

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48. "And this is exactly the struggle transgender people are fighting "
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>That said, if someone wants to identify as A WOMAN, and they
>can get everybody else to view them as A WOMAN (because
>arguably the distinguishing feature of being A WOMAN in this
>country is that everybody else sees you as A WOMAN), then
>it's fine with me. It's not like GENDER is some sacred,
>super-scientific designation.

They want to be identified as a woman or man just like a transracial person (this is going to be a thing by the end of the day lol) wants to be identified as black, white, whatever.

A major fight is over how they are recognized

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100. "this is pretty much what i came in to post"
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race is an artificial and unscientific construct. gender is not.

end of story.

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236. "nah...sloppy science is used for both"
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Let me sport my Air Hyperbole 2010s in peace. (c) ansomble

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238. "it could be argued that gender is but sex isn't"
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I guess that's why this is such a slippery slope argument

If someone says that they are missing an x chromosome that sounds very similar to someone saying that they are missing a certain amount of melanin

Free love y'all

  

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26. "The people comparing these two are either white or transphobic."
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"They used to call me Baby Luke....but now? The whole damn 2 Liiiive Crew."

  

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30. "One is culture and the other is biological"
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besides skin color, there aren't any identifying traits that make someone black.

Considering humans all start off as female in the womb, there are legitimate arguments about the biological aspects of transgender folks.

Transrace people aren't born that way and won't be.

Transrace is where I turn into a bigot.

If I have to identify which Ron I'm talking about at work, I'm not going to call Ron "transracial Ron." No nigga it's white Ron, not the black Ron.

  

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76. "I am pretty sure you can't distinguish fetuses by race. "
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>besides skin color, there aren't any identifying traits that
>make someone black.
>
>Considering humans all start off as female in the womb, there
>are legitimate arguments about the biological aspects of
>transgender folks.

Like sex, I am pretty sure all fetuses are indinstinguishably by race early in their development and develop racial characteristics later in development.

>
>Transrace people aren't born that way and won't be.
>
>Transrace is where I turn into a bigot.
>
>If I have to identify which Ron I'm talking about at work, I'm
>not going to call Ron "transracial Ron." No nigga it's white
>Ron, not the black Ron.

I am going to say usetabe white Ron.

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46. "What would be gender dysphoria for transrace?"
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49. "the japanese b-stylers"
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are we calling this transrace? as an example
because this to me is imitation (and perhaps the best form of flattery)
but in no way shape or form would i consider this some sort of transracial identity
for numerous reasons, one being that its based on a conception of what 'african american' is, that is divorced from the
every day reality of what being black in america is/may be

http://www.vice.com/read/b-style-japan-desir-van-den-berg-photos

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50. "Apparently they have theme parks"
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designed to look like American ghettos.

I remember there was a white hip hop group called 'Young Black Teenagers'. When asked in an interview about their name....they responded 'Being black is a state of mind'.

  

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51. "sad face"
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'Being black is a state of mind'.

yet another way to minimize the black experience

aka levels of priviledge

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52. "Jamal, talk white! (c) Kid in House Party 2"
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54. "oh shit"
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I din't know that was actually him. He's the same guy that said 'Being black is a state of mind' in the interveiw I saw.

  

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53. "That girl, Hina, tho.....?"
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55. "sans or with tan?"
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i myself would never want to be god,or even like god.Because god got all these human beings on this planet and i most certainly would not want to be responsible for them, or even have the disgrace that i made them.

  

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195. "I would place this in a seperate category based on cultures"
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The Japanese do not have white supremacy, slavery, or Jim Crow in their history. Anything they accept as black will be viewed from a completely different angle and be completely devoid of the things that charge the issue here in the U.S.

Also darkening skin or teeth has been a thing in their culture for many years and in some cases centuries.

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227. "RE: I would place this in a seperate category based on cultures"
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>The Japanese do not have white supremacy, slavery, or Jim
>Crow in their history. Anything they accept as black will be
>viewed from a completely different angle and be completely
>devoid of the things that charge the issue here in the U.S.

it won't be completely devoid of those things, it will just be seen through the lens of what they get from portrayals in media//pop culture. which is generally not a good portrayal.

>Also darkening skin or teeth has been a thing in their culture
>for many years and in some cases centuries.

darkening their skin? japanese women have been lightening/avoiding the darkening of their skin for centuries.

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56. "alright, IF...IF we were to take this goofy ass argument for real..."
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then i bet the farm that no one would be able to successfully go/claim/become white

and no

im not pointing out whiteness on some "the whitemans ice is colder" shit

im talking about it purely from a social benefits standpoint

they would not give that shit up. it would never be granted.

no model minority asian would be allowed in. ever.


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57. "True."
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But a society might choose to not acknowledge a trans person's identity as well. The whole point is that we're trying to encourage society to do so. So the counter argument would be 'Then we need to convince society to see these transrace black/asian people as white out of respect for their identity' (just like we need to convince society to see Caitlyn Jenner as a woman).

  

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58. "Find someone 50 years ago...."
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Tell them that it will be commonplace and widely accepted to refer to a man as 'she'.
We don't know what kind of world we will be living in in the future.

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60. "yes but, the act of gender bending has been around forever. "
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see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-Spirit

for example


i mean....shit, im trying to see the future with todays eyes and i cant see it

i wont be an angry denier because if this picks up steam then i will have to go with it

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61. "What if this was our out?"
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There's a cognitive dissonance here. We want people to be able to define themselves.....but we don't want someone like Chet Haze taking advantage of our framework by claiming victim status for an identity that he does not (by our perception) 'truly' identify with.

So why don't we sacrifice the rule that we HAVE to take people at their word?

If a trans person stands to gain something tangible (ie they are a 'born male' who wants to compete in ladies basketball) then it's OK if we question their motives? If a white person wants to identify that they're black because they romanticize a perceived victim-status in doing so....then it's OK if we question them.

Perhaps the problem is that we didn't leave room to call people out when we think they are manipulating our framework. I can't see any tangible reason why Caitlyn Jenner would proclaim a new identity other than that she genuinely feels that way. So I have no reason to question her sincerity. But that doesn't have to be the case. We should feel free to call bullshit when we see it.

  

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63. "sure, but it's very arbitrary as to when people legitimize identity. "
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the reason I made this post is because I think it's interesting when people are accepting of one's identity in one instance, but wholly judgmental in another instance.

This is a fascinating topic because it challenges people's philosophical foundations on social identity.


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64. "sidenote: notice how we champion self-identity in one instance..."
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meaning - many tend to recognize the autonomy and sovereignty of an individual when it comes to expressing their gender/sex fluidity. If they want to identity as bi/gay/trans - we tend to say "it is their right to identify as they choose and identify with whatever resonates w/ them most" < and this is the appropriate, tolerant course of action.

But when it comes to race - it's far more sticky to most. We (we being general society) don't necessarily seem to want to afford that same autonomy and creative space to self-identity - because of a lot of strong personal beliefs and rigid definitions on what "race" means and how it functions in society.

Interestingly, we still hold on to and deem as legitimate the concept of "race" as it was constructed hundreds of years ago. We have challenged conventional norms of "beauty" - and now "gender" - but when it comes to "race" - we are still very rigid and conventional - and that likely has to do with it being arguably the most polarizing facet of american society.

But at the end of the day - if the principle is to tolerate and accept a person's right to self-identify, how is it ever an acceptable course of action to say "no, that's impermissible, we will decide for you who you are" ?

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66. "because it's largely unnecessary"
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While folks may get the side eye for claiming to be a different race than they appear to be, they're often free to adopt or embrace almost all of the cultural aspects of the race without much blowback. I think gender is different in that there are greater reprcussions for attempting to adopt gender non-conforming attributes.

  

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68. "RE: because it's largely unnecessary"
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>While folks may get the side eye for claiming to be a
>different race than they appear to be, they're often free to
>adopt or embrace almost all of the cultural aspects of the
>race without much blowback.

Sure - and a transgendered person (born male) who chooses to identify as "female" can
embrace all the cultural aspects of femininity and gender without much blowback, also.

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70. "Perhaps it's this simple"
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>But at the end of the day - if the principle is to tolerate
>and accept a person's right to self-identify, how is it ever
>an acceptable course of action to say "no, that's
>impermissible, we will decide for you who you are" ?

Answer: it's acceptable when we have reason to believe that they are lying.

So tolerating and accepting a person's right to self-identity does not have to be a hard and fast principle. There can be room for us to acknowledge when an individual attempts to manipulate the framework. Might that lead us into sometimes denying an identity to someone who genuinely deserves it? Perhaps. But there's no policy we can follow that isn't gonna be messy.

I'm not prepared to let everybody define themselves however they want. If Chet Haze insists that I refer to him as a black man....I'm not going to. I know this is a no-no in identity politics discourse but I don't care. I feel fine in not having to adhere to a strict principle of tolerance and respect. People lie sometimes.

  

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71. "RE: Perhaps it's this simple"
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>
>>But at the end of the day - if the principle is to tolerate
>>and accept a person's right to self-identify, how is it ever
>>an acceptable course of action to say "no, that's
>>impermissible, we will decide for you who you are" ?
>
>Answer: it's acceptable when we have reason to believe that
>they are lying.

that's messy. Who is the qualified arbiter equipped to determine if somebody is 'lying' about their gender/race self-identification?

>I'm not prepared to let everybody define themselves however
>they want. If Chet Haze insists that I refer to him as a
>black man....I'm not going to. I know this is a no-no in
>identity politics discourse but I don't care. I feel fine in
>not having to adhere to a strict principle of tolerance and
>respect. People lie sometimes.

This is kinda an over-reach to make a point. When has Chet Haze ever
insisted that people refer to him as a black man?


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74. "RE: Perhaps it's this simple"
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>
>that's messy. Who is the qualified arbiter equipped to
>determine if somebody is 'lying' about their gender/race
>self-identification

Just as their identity belongs to them....my perception belongs to me. So that makes me the arbiter. If I'm wrong...they still have their identity and I have my wrong perception. I perceive Caitlyn Jenner to be a woman but it needn't HAVE to be that way.




>>I'm not prepared to let everybody define themselves however
>>they want. If Chet Haze insists that I refer to him as a
>>black man....I'm not going to. I know this is a no-no in
>>identity politics discourse but I don't care. I feel fine
>in
>>not having to adhere to a strict principle of tolerance and
>>respect. People lie sometimes.
>
>This is kinda an over-reach to make a point. When has Chet
>Haze ever
>insisted that people refer to him as a black man?
>

Isn't that what we're talking about? A transrace person? Forget I mentioned Chet Haze then. A white dude who says he identifies as a black male.


  

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75. "RE: Perhaps it's this simple"
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>Just as their identity belongs to them....my perception
>belongs to me. So that makes me the arbiter. If I'm
>wrong...they still have their identity and I have my wrong
>perception. I perceive Caitlyn Jenner to be a woman but it
>needn't HAVE to be that way.

Sure - that's fine, as long as we're not saying that equal rights under the law is contingent upon the whims and subjectivity of a person's personal prejudices.

In other words - should Caitlyn Jenner be allowed to identify as a woman, under the law? Or should we hold some type of special court to adjudicate whether or not we will allow Caitlyn to be identified as "female" on her driver's license, based on whether we think she's lying or not?


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79. "Yah....I anticipated that."
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And that is certainly problematic. I'm not sure how the law should work and it's relevant to things like status benefits and such.

  

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67. "you can feel like a woman. feeling black doesn't exist without societal ..."
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assuming that's the reason someone would want to identify as transracial
transgender people from what I understand (admittedly very little) identify as such because of their inner feelings of masculinity/femininity/attractions so on
but i don't think people wake up and say they feel their race internally
what is that?
how does someone feel black without any societal context that identifies them as such?
if it's based on the things they identify with culturally (like music or clothes or taste in a partner), that doesn't require that a person's skin be a certain color to embrace it
so i don't think the comparison is an appropriate one.
or if it is, i can't wrap my head around it.

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69. "why is that left up to you adjudicate and understand?"
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>but i don't think people wake up and say they feel their race
>internally
>what is that?
>how does someone feel black without any societal context that
>identifies them as such?

How does someone feel male/female without any societal context that identifies them as such?

It's not necessary that you understand how somebody might wake up and "feel like a woman" - most people accept that person's right to feel that way and afford them to creative space to self-identify.

Why is your comprehension necessary in order to validate somebody who feels like their census report "race" categorization isn't sufficient to identify them.

>if it's based on the things they identify with culturally
>(like music or clothes or taste in a partner), that doesn't
>require that a person's skin be a certain color to embrace it
>so i don't think the comparison is an appropriate one.

I think what's confusing about this topic is that we still don't really have a strong sense of what "race" is - likely because it's a flimsy construct that is wholly limited, which is why "transracial" theory even developed in the first place.




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81. "i'm not saying its up to me, i just want to understand how it works."
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if we're gonna make the transgender/transracial comparison
one i can wrap my head around (albeit a little bit)
because i can understand a person feeling femininity while existing in a body that we identify as male
or vice versa
however it's been described to me, it usually involves some iteration of feeling born in a body that they would like to alter

the other idea of being born in a race that isn't correct or wanting to change race i don't understand because i don't know what its based on
is it a feeling that the person should have been born a different race and that person spends their life knowing they should have been asian/white/black/italian whatever?
is there some inherent discomfort that plagues them that drives them to attempt to change their race?
is there such thing as changing your race (i.e. racial reconstructive surgery)?
i'm not trying to get anyone to prove or validate anything to me personally
i'm just trying to understand the parallel of transgender and transracial
if there is one

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113. "it's obviously something emerging as an entry to a larger discussion"
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There was a time when people were similarly flabbergasted about the notion of transgender, and wondered how it worked, what it looked like, how they could ever make any kind of sense of it, etc...

>the other idea of being born in a race that isn't correct or
>wanting to change race i don't understand because i don't know
>what its based on
>is it a feeling that the person should have been born a
>different race and that person spends their life knowing they
>should have been asian/white/black/italian whatever?
>is there some inherent discomfort that plagues them that
>drives them to attempt to change their race?
>is there such thing as changing your race (i.e. racial
>reconstructive surgery)?
>i'm not trying to get anyone to prove or validate anything to
>me personally
>i'm just trying to understand the parallel of transgender and
>transracial
>if there is one

All valid questions - and a larger discussion should be had on this. Where we have traditionally encountered the concept of 'transrace' is with somebody like Tiger Woods, who chooses to identify with a certain percentage of his ethnic makeup moreso than other percentages. This is something that so called "interracial" people experience all of the time, and they often choose to identify with what's easiest and most accepted by general society.

But when they don't accept what's easiest and most accepted by general society, there is an immediate rush to judgment and an incredulous tone. However, what makes this discussion interesting is that we all (well, most of us) accept that race is an illusory construct, as such, it's a malleable concept that evolves as cultural norms do. The parallel is that we often refer to race as skin-tone as we do gender to sexual equipment/genitalia -- but just as that sexual equipment sometimes doesn't accurately reflect who the person feels like they are possessing that sexual equipment, a particular skin-tone (identified as 'race') may not accurately reflect who that particular person feels that they are. Why would people feel like this? Perhaps because the human lineage dates back thousands and thousands of years whereby our DNA is literally comprised of a myriad of ethnicities and "races" - such that the notion of identifying just as one becomes wholly limiting for some people.


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77. "I think yall are wrong saying gender doesn't involve societal context "
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That's been repeated throughout this thread. It's just not true.

Sexual attraction may not need societal context but transgender ism is not the same as homosexuality.

Expression of transgender absolutely involves societal context. The transgenderism of Brazil is expressed very different from the transgendered of San Francisco or Thailand.



>assuming that's the reason someone would want to identify as
>transracial
>transgender people from what I understand (admittedly very
>little) identify as such because of their inner feelings of
>masculinity/femininity/attractions so on
>but i don't think people wake up and say they feel their race
>internally
>what is that?
>how does someone feel black without any societal context that
>identifies them as such?
>if it's based on the things they identify with culturally
>(like music or clothes or taste in a partner), that doesn't
>require that a person's skin be a certain color to embrace it
>so i don't think the comparison is an appropriate one.
>or if it is, i can't wrap my head around it.
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83. "fair enough."
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95. "There's no way of ever knowing that what you're feeling is woman"
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if your chromosomes made you a male.

  

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140. "right. trans is something that can be apparent during childhood"
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it's independent of any external influences


many trans people express from a young age that they don't fit into gender norms


for example: (1:35 mark)

a trans woman describes how, as a young boy in first grade, she would express herself as a girl
http://1drv.ms/1QUhrJR


so called "trans race," which is really cultural affinity, is
entirely dependent on your surroundings. no white child is born
with something inside of them that makes them feel "Black"

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82. "Who are these people who consider themselves transracial? "
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I think some examples are in order.


  

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92. "I've asked"
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And still waiting for examples and how they define this
If it's black what does that mean exactly

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122. "I think it's telling that they won't speak in specifics"
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The argument here seems to be based purely on vague hypothetical scenarios and, as you may notice, is only being advanced by heterosexual men. It's like they are frantically looking for a "Gotcha!" moment to hold over LGBT folks' heads. I'm a let them keep looking lol.

  

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129. "The reason there aren't specifics is because it's a new concept."
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once upon a time there was no such thing as a transgendered person
walking around. People are using everyone from Tom Hanks' son, to this
NAACP woman, to Tiger Woods in this post to make varying points about
'transrace' - but it's a theoretical discussion - of course hypotheticals are
being discussed.

>The argument here seems to be based purely on vague
>hypothetical scenarios and, as you may notice, is only being
>advanced by heterosexual men. It's like they are frantically
>looking for a "Gotcha!" moment to hold over LGBT folks' heads.
>I'm a let them keep looking lol.

not sure how that 'gotcha!' moment would work for me as a heterosexual
male, because I have nothing to hold over LGBT folks' heads except
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250. "Our specific example is Rachel"
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Although you're trying to isolate the discussion, we can't escape the fact that the only reason we're talking about transrace is because it's being wielded in defense of Rachel, whose story is being compared to that of transgender people. That comparison is most often an act of bigotry, meant to belittle the lives of real, breathing transgender men and women rather than to uplift transracial people, whom you admit only exist to you theoretically.

>once upon a time there was no such thing as a transgendered
>person
>walking around. People are using everyone from Tom Hanks'
>son, to this
>NAACP woman, to Tiger Woods in this post to make varying
>points about
>'transrace' - but it's a theoretical discussion - of course
>hypotheticals are
>being discussed.

But there have always been people who fit the characteristics of transgender people. Transracialism has been a recognized thing for a while, but not in the way that you are defining it. I think that when you look at the specific cases of people who adopt transracial identities, it becomes more evident the ways in which race and gender, although both social constructs, operate differently.

>not sure how that 'gotcha!' moment would work for me as a
>heterosexual
>male, because I have nothing to hold over LGBT folks' heads
>except
>their constitutional, human, and universal rights.

I don't doubt that your heart is in the right place, but in this post, the people on your side are hetero men who have previously expressed negative attitudes toward transgender identity; men who I think are opportunistically looking to strike back against the marginalized people who've challenged them in the past. Their participation, and the context in which it has arisen, makes it hard to trust the sincerity of this discussion.

  

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84. "My question is why are people trying so hard to distinguish the two?"
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Can we all admit that all the reasons listed here and in other place are really really weak and unconvincing? I mean don't ppl feel that little knot in your stomach telling you that you sound just like all those people who tried to make arguments against transgenderism?



I think the transgendered community is doing themselves a huge disservice and are being super short sighted working so hard to distinguish the two.

It comes off as if their arguments for the right to self-identify are completely self-serving and an argument of convenience.

My only issue with the concept of transrace is the idea of white folks taking advantage of programs that are set aside for minorities. Other than that why does anyone really give a fuk?


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85. "This is the most fascinating part of this conversation to me:"
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>Can we all admit that all the reasons listed here and in
>other place are really really weak and unconvincing? I mean
>don't feel that little not in your stomach telling you that
>you sound just like all those people who tried to make
>arguments against transgenderism?

A lot of people in here who fancy themselves progressives would sound like outright GOP evangelical bigots if their transrace analysis were framed in the context of transgender.

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88. "I'm seeing a ton of pushback from black and white people on the internet"
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against the idea that Jenner and this woman are separate situations, which is blowing my mind. Alot of people are basically in support of this woman, which o wouldn't have predicted, if you mentioned this to me as a hypothetical last week.

The thing I'm seeing now is some people just saying "Transrace is not a thing", and hoping the discussion just stops there.

  

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91. "Well I am talking about a very specific group, Pro-transgendered and ant..."
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-transracial.

People who fall into that group are the ones who I think are clearly hypocritical.

It's not surprising people who are anti-transgendered are also anti-transracial.

It's also not surprising to me that Black people are supportive of her because it seems the woman had a track record that spoke to her commitment to racial issues. She doesn't come off as opportunistic like say an azelia banks.


>against the idea that Jenner and this woman are separate
>situations, which is blowing my mind. Alot of people are
>basically in support of this woman, which o wouldn't have
>predicted, if you mentioned this to me as a hypothetical last
>week.
>
>The thing I'm seeing now is some people just saying "Transrace
>is not a thing", and hoping the discussion just stops there.


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105. "lol right."
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>against the idea that Jenner and this woman are separate
>situations, which is blowing my mind. Alot of people are
>basically in support of this woman, which o wouldn't have
>predicted, if you mentioned this to me as a hypothetical last
>week.
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>The thing I'm seeing now is some people just saying "Transrace
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86. "one deals with gender, one deals with skin color"
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this is easy. over complicating it makes it boring and stressful.

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97. "The argument (that we're trying to dismantle)"
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is that if race can be defined as skin colour than gender can be defined by genitals.

We don't want gender to be defined as genitals. So we need to show how race is somehow different from gender.

  

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108. "don't dismantle it, simply ignore it"
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i know you are open minded and have LIVED, so, i know you won't let something like someone's definition of race of gender bother you, so why even engage? its a waste of time b.

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114. "I don't think it's a waste of time."
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My high school did not have ONE out gay person. My step-daughter attends that high school currently.....there are somewhere close to 100 out gay people there now. They have a school-sanctioned LGBT club there now. It's a beautiful thing. My gym teacher used to call students faggots.

Things have changed DRASTICALLY because of discourse. So it's not a waste of time to refine our discourse in the attempts to persuade more people to be tolerant and respectful. When an argument surfaces that questions our discourse....we need to find a way to address it. Lest we stop changing hearts and minds.

  

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115. "i agree with that, however"
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to me it just seems like there will always be a group of people that are naysayers to any idea. i'm telling you bro, if jesus/god himself climbed down from heaven and laid down the law, if there is any such thing, there would be a group of people that would disagree, give it a term, and than argue about it, lol. in my opinion, if you have a good heart, that is full of love, acceptance, and guidance for the young'uns in your immediate circle, that is more than enough to change the world.

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89. "transgender folks are normal & transrace"
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Folks are certifiable and racist. Pass.

  

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90. "Whatever someone wants to identify as....."
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Out of respect, I'll refer to them as that, even if I don't necessarily subscribe to it.


I was trying to grasp an understanding of this comparison on Twitter and from what I heard, some transgenders and transgender allies are saying that genetics(chromosomes) determine your biological sex (male or female) while gender is a societal construct that is "learned". So you can be biologically male or female, but can choose to identify with whatever gender you feel closest to because these are taught and learned behaviors.

Idk, some mind fuck shit that I don't have the time or patience for.

  

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93. "being black stymies ANY exploratory process. off rip."
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wanna explore? see the world! climb mt. kilimanjaro? train-hop all around this great nation w/o incident?

nigga we can't even get in a funky-ass pool...

a white transgender is still going to be more readily welcomed most anywhere.

(for the record i support anybody's desire to do anything other than prey on children. i even support my opinion not mattering)

so i guess the answer is they don't fuck with us @ all?

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94. "One is real and one is racist..."
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Transracial ends up looking like this

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mHze_WKcIpw/TCnpt2t_zMI/AAAAAAAABaQ/fHveaEXMRrk/s1600/vlcsnap-2010-06-29-14h19m14s71.png

I'll put what I put in the other post...

Transracial Its not a thing...
People are using transracial to delegitimizatize transmen and women. It's akin to the "you want to change one social rule, the why just not take away all rules then" argument. Is there legitimate transracial movement, activism, community groups or any of the things that would mean there is a real group of people that identify this way? No... Are there white folks out there talking about they felt that they were black when they were born and craved whiting when their teeth came in but were only served flounder by their white parents who didn't understand. No...
There is Chet hanks who wants to call us niggas and this white woman staging hate crimes though.
I'm surprised people are taking it seriously. The only people entertaining this are people who didn't fully grasp transgenderism and now want to spread their misunderstanding to other shit they don't understand.

I'll also add that the social stigma around being a transgender person is so crazy and dangerous the there really isn't much in the way of social benefit in identifying as trans, only personal benefit of being happy and healthy.

The opposite is true with race... White who pass are looking for a social benefit either from blacks or others...that is less about how they feel on the inside and more about seeking acceptance and what they gain from others.
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98. "I think everyone agrees with you."
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But we're looking for a way of using language to differentiate between transex and transrace instead of just making accusations (however justified).

Don't you agree that we'd be better served with a discourse that shows why transrace is illegitimate?

  

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101. "Nope. Its the same damn thing"
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>Transracial ends up looking like this
>
>http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mHze_WKcIpw/TCnpt2t_zMI/AAAAAAAABaQ/fHveaEXMRrk/s1600/vlcsnap-2010-06-29-14h19m14s71.png
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Transgendered ends up looking like this

http://cdn04.cdn.justjared.com/wp-content/uploads/headlines/2015/06/caitlyn-jenner-new-vanity-fair-video.jpg

You find transracial offensive yet cant understand why others find transgendered offensive.

Its hypocritical IMO.

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102. "Total utter self-serving bullshit. One is a thing and the other is not ..."
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people decided one is a thing and the other is not. But look at history so many things were not things, until people decided they were things.

Transgenderism wasn't a thing. Homosexuality and Lesbianism were not things (both terms are less than a couple of hundred years old).


>Transracial ends up looking like this
>
>http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mHze_WKcIpw/TCnpt2t_zMI/AAAAAAAABaQ/fHveaEXMRrk/s1600/vlcsnap-2010-06-29-14h19m14s71.png


And transgenderism ends up looking like this:

https://loft965.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/dragraceleak.png

mainstreams depiction of either isn't what defines them.


>
>I'll put what I put in the other post...
>
>Transracial Its not a thing...
>People are using transracial to delegitimizatize transmen and
>women. It's akin to the "you want to change one social rule,
>the why just not take away all rules then" argument. Is there
>legitimate transracial movement, activism, community groups or
>any of the things that would mean there is a real group of
>people that identify this way? No... Are there white folks out
>there talking about they felt that they were black when they
>were born and craved whiting when their teeth came in but were
>only served flounder by their white parents who didn't
>understand. No...


Now I totally agree with you that folks are seizing on this too legitimize transgenderism. It is no coincidence that that woman's story is all over the news and peoples facebook streams.

But exploiting the issue doesn't make it less and issue and the opportunism of people on the issue doesn't undermine the logical and moral inconsitency of people supporting one form of self-identification and self-presenting and attempting to negate another form.

And you mock it (like GOP mocks LGBT) bu there have always been people passing and people who identifying with a race other than there own.

>There is Chet hanks who wants to call us niggas and this white
>woman staging hate crimes though.

And why do you think the woman was staging hate crimes? Because the police doubted her story? Weird intersection going on there because people ususally jump all other the police for treating a woman's claim of sexual harrasment so suspiciously. Because it's racial harrasment people have no problem dismissing her claims with little evidence based on police doubt.


>I'm surprised people are taking it seriously. The only people
>entertaining this are people who didn't fully grasp
>transgenderism and now want to spread their misunderstanding
>to other shit they don't understand.
>
>I'll also add that the social stigma around being a
>transgender person is so crazy and dangerous the there really
>isn't much in the way of social benefit in identifying as
>trans, only personal benefit of being happy and healthy.
>
>The opposite is true with race... White who pass are looking
>for a social benefit either from blacks or others...that is
>less about how they feel on the inside and more about seeking
>acceptance and what they gain from others.


Mayne y'all sound like Bill O'Reily talking about how there is there is this great benefit to identifying and presenting as african-american. Seriously, who else argues how being black is better than white in american other than white conservative shock jocks?


Folks should just admit that it's a value judgement. One I consider to be a thing and the other I don't consider to be a thing just because I am cool with one and not the other rather than going into all these contortions trying to craft a logic or moral argument around it.



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107. "Yup.. I was late as fuck on your angle but you are killing it on this is..."
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Its amazing how quickly someine can go from MSNBC to FOXNEWS and not even know it.

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111. "Please, you read Ms. Jenners 5 page article "
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and now you think you know enough about transgender people to contrast and compare their experience to someone else's....
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126. "Haven't read it yet. I guess you didn't notice that my position isn't"
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based on being the arbiter deciding whose self-identification is valid and whose invalid.

My position is based on the simple position, live and let live.

When that is your position you don't need to know jack about what it means to be transgendered to decide if it ain't hurting me let them rock. The same goes for the transracial.

I'd a thought live and let live would have been a guiding principle behind the transgendered movement but an element of that movement is revealing it's true self and showing that isn't the case.




>and now you think you know enough about transgender people
>to contrast and compare their experience to someone else's....
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>Please stop.
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109. "lol wow. "
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This issue has brought out a previously unearthed bigotry that is fascinating to observe unveil itself.

>There is Chet hanks who wants to call us niggas and this white
>woman staging hate crimes though.

lol. This is like saying, 'well there's this transgendered dude who likes to rape women and this other woman who sells meth but thinks she's a man" - and citing those two examples as your reasoning as to why you think transgendered identity is illegitimate. lol c'mon.

>I'll also add that the social stigma around being a
>transgender person is so crazy and dangerous the there really
>isn't much in the way of social benefit in identifying as
>trans, only personal benefit of being happy and healthy.

>The opposite is true with race... White who pass are looking
>for a social benefit either from blacks or others...that is
>less about how they feel on the inside and more about seeking
>acceptance and what they gain from others.

yikes. We're now telling people how they should feel and judging their own feelings?

This is a very familiar tactic: try to marginalize a group - as many people do w/ transgendered people - by positing a singular example of a troubled transgendered person to widely dismiss the entire concept.

Problem is - it never works. It's just a poor camouflage to mask bigotry and an unwillingness to accept a particular group.

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116. "White people wanting to possess blackness is as old as the day is long"
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The history is there and these people are not acting without historical context. If anything they are acting purely out of a historical context of white privilege.
It's not about "being who you really are" It's about possession...of the black body and all the gross stereotypes that come with it that they desire.

Those who can enjoy blackness, participate in it are fine by me. Culture is meant to be shared... but for some people participation is not enough. Blackness must be bought and owned and benefited from like one of a million commodities.
Transracial is just a new way to soften the language of an age old obsession with black folks mixed with never ending need for ownership of black bodies.

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117. "predictably, you want to make this about you."
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Just as an evangelical wants to make transgendered identity and gay marriage about *them* and their conventional notion of what gender/marriage means, you are looking at the concept of transrace under a narrow lens whereby only your understanding of race is the legitimate one.

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118. "k"
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We don't have to agree but calling me childish ain't gon clap.

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128. "How does all you just said, not apply to transgendered?"
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I mean the argument you made against the trans-racial is exactly the same argument that Elinor Burkett's NYT Op-Ed critique of Caitlyn Jenner and transgenderism.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/opinion/sunday/what-makes-a-woman.html?_r=0

Pertinent part below:

People who haven’t lived their whole lives as women, whether Ms. Jenner or Mr. Summers, shouldn’t get to define us. That’s something men have been doing for much too long. And as much as I recognize and endorse the right of men to throw off the mantle of maleness, they cannot stake their claim to dignity as transgender people by trampling on mine as a woman.

Their truth is not my truth. Their female identities are not my female identity. They haven’t traveled through the world as women and been shaped by all that this entails. They haven’t suffered through business meetings with men talking to their breasts or woken up after sex terrified they’d forgotten to take their birth control pills the day before. They haven’t had to cope with the onset of their periods in the middle of a crowded subway, the humiliation of discovering that their male work partners’ checks were far larger than theirs, or the fear of being too weak to ward off rapists....

THE drip, drip, drip of Ms. Jenner’s experience included a hefty dose of male privilege few women could possibly imagine. While young “Bruiser,” as Bruce Jenner was called as a child, was being cheered on toward a university athletic scholarship, few female athletes could dare hope for such largess since universities offered little funding for women’s sports. When Mr. Jenner looked for a job to support himself during his training for the 1976 Olympics, he didn’t have to turn to the meager “Help Wanted – Female” ads in the newspapers, and he could get by on the $9,000 he earned annually, unlike young women whose median pay was little more than half that of men. Tall and strong, he never had to figure out how to walk streets safely at night.

Those are realities that shape women’s brains.

By defining womanhood the way he did to Ms. Sawyer, Mr. Jenner and the many advocates for transgender rights who take a similar tack ignore those realities. In the process, they undermine almost a century of hard-fought arguments that the very definition of female is a social construct that has subordinated us. And they undercut our efforts to change the circumstances we grew up with.

The “I was born in the wrong body” rhetoric favored by other trans people doesn’t work any better and is just as offensive, reducing us to our collective breasts and vaginas. Imagine the reaction if a young white man suddenly declared that he was trapped in the wrong body and, after using chemicals to change his skin pigmentation and crocheting his hair into twists, expected to be embraced by the black community.

Many women I know, of all ages and races, speak privately about how insulting we find the language trans activists use to explain themselves. After Mr. Jenner talked about his brain, one friend called it an outrage and asked in exasperation, “Is he saying that he’s bad at math, weeps during bad movies and is hard-wired for empathy?” After the release of the Vanity Fair photos of Ms. Jenner, Susan Ager, a Michigan journalist, wrote on her Facebook page, “I fully support Caitlyn Jenner, but I wish she hadn’t chosen to come out as a sex babe.”



RE: White people wanting to possess blackness is as old as the day is long
>The history is there and these people are not acting without
>historical context. If anything they are acting purely out of
>a historical context of white privilege.
>It's not about "being who you really are" It's about
>possession...of the black body and all the gross stereotypes
>that come with it that they desire.
>
>Those who can enjoy blackness, participate in it are fine by
>me. Culture is meant to be shared... but for some people
>participation is not enough. Blackness must be bought and
>owned and benefited from like one of a million commodities.
>Transracial is just a new way to soften the language of an age
>old obsession with black folks mixed with never ending need
>for ownership of black bodies.
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130. "I agree with all that."
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If there is a legitimate case of a person who is transrace.....I can't conceive of it as of yet. My initial reaction that it would be one the scenarios you outlined. Either they have an ethnic romanticism type of thing going on.....or they want to lay claim to a burden that they don't actually experience (victim-hood seeking)....or they feel that their voice will carry more weight/taken more seriously....or they want access to a tangible benefit that they don't deserve (race-relevant scholarship/government tax benefit/etc). Most likely some combination of all four and none of them are legitimate or just.

And just like you mentioned earlier.....those possible motivations are not as present for gender transitions. Yes, it's true that trans issues also have scenarios that might involve opportunism (males transitioning to females and then competing in a woman's sports league)....but those instances are EXTREMELY rare.

  

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119. "It's the transgenders peeping in the locker room argument lol"
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>There is Chet hanks who wants to call us niggas and this
>white
>>woman staging hate crimes though.

It's so funny that all of the Hannity, conservative talking points come out in all this.

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120. "Except those are their unfounded fears"
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These are examples of real live racist doing real live things. Its not like we're short on racism in this society... And expecting it from people that engage in this kind of race play is so far out the box.
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121. "So this lady in the news today is a racist?"
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123. "There is a high chance she made up fake hate crimes"
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To deepen her "black experience" and gain credibility.
If not that then she didn't believe black folks were evolved enough to allow her to do the kinds of work she wanted to do because she is white. She was paid to give speeches on growing up black! So yes she is a racist....yes.
Its like the guy from the Indian one tear commercial....
http://lparchive.org/Mega-Man-Battle-Network-4-6/Update%2049/31-crying-indian1.jpg
This dude is Italian and ran around passing as an Indian because it made him feel special, unique and different.
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133. "Well there is the black face part for starters."
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136. "Again, apply your logic to transgender."
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Is a man dressing as a woman automatically being sexist in that they are committing an act of imitation of a culturally traditionally subordinate group?

  

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138. "black face and transgender people are not equivalent."
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I love how people are who didn't know jack squat about transpeople only a month and a half ago now know so much about it that they can now assign that experience to other people who have yet to articulate it for themselves.
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145. "If you describe what that lady is doing is blackface then clearly you"
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You don't know what blackface is.

Then you keep resorting to this "y'all think you know transgemndserism" what gives you this great insight into transgemndserism that you think we clearly don't posess?


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150. "If this was black face than that is black face"
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http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1497394.1382802244!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_970/107440pcn-julianne.jpg

Based on stereotypes and born out of fetishism as it always has been. Keep handing out passes for trans-blackface.

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152. "It's really weird "
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to see the practice involving the genitals as entirely normative, while the one involving skin color is necessarily "born out of fetishism". That's totally strange to me.

  

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153. "it is - and it's also logically bankrupt."
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>to see the practice involving the genitals as entirely
>normative, while the one involving skin color is necessarily
>"born out of fetishism". That's totally strange to me.


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268. "Only if you continue to view this ahistorically"
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That's pretty illogical
Context is important

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99. "I guess I'm still stuck on the individuals being used for comparison"
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What bothers me about this woman is her attempt to hide her past. I can understand not feeling a connection to her past identity but her attempt to completely hide it seems cowardly in comparison to Caitlyn who continually revealed it to those closest to her and, eventually, the world.

I'm sure alot of transgendered men and women probably have pasts they want to forget and probably don't want the public spotlight but I'd think their transition would be something they'd at least share with their inner circles.

I believe this woman's husband knew she was white (just bc the parents were at the wedding) but if she didn't reveal this part of her to other close friends and confidants, I'd think she's a poor representative of trans-racials.

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103. "But this is only because we knew Jenner beforehand..."
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There are probably transgendered who move to knew cities and create new lives just like this woman.

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127. "the major component to passing is secrecy otherwise you're not passing"
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lol she was doing it right but its just a concept that screams WRONG....WRONG © c. murphy

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110. "How can one be trans race when one can only be human?"
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112. "to put it this way, i'm not going to deconstruct a turd"
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to know that it's made of shit.

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131. "To answer the ?, they say race isn't scientific but gender is."
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Meaning there's a measurable difference in hormones and whatnot when it comes to
men and women, the brain causes different parts of the body to develop, etc.

For one, if transrace and transgender are comparable, somebody gonna have to come up off
that lie that race is just a "social construct" and admit we ain't so alike. So that's
the first order of business. Somebody gonna have to be honest and stop lying about
why all these experiments keeps happening on us and why they trafficking organs.

For two, all this comparing it to people passing is silly, because people "pass" when
they already look a lot like the race they tryna pass for, and as Sha pointed out, secrecy
is a major component of that. So to make this comparable, are we saying the only
people who can really claim transrace are people who are half or already appear to
be the race they wanna pass for? How does this compare to transgender folks when
they go through "gender reassignment surgery"? You can tell me all day that your
past doesn't make you a man or a woman or that experiences don't contribute to it,
but I'm really gonna need you to fall down telling me the same is true for race.

And that leads to number 3. The government decides what race you are. Look at
Mustafa Hefny who has been fighting for years to be called black. That's not even
him trying to change what he is. That's him trying to be recognized as what he is...
ACCORDING to this "social construct" called race. Understand why that is, and then
get at me with this comparison.
Does the government do this to women or men over here? Is anyone born with a
penis fighting to be called or man or born with a vagina fighting to be called a woman?
I can't take nobody seriously who ignores white supremacy in this discussion.


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132. "Also this question from a white supremacist society is some bullshit"
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(I'm including you, because conservative outlets have been asking this same question
since the Dolezal controversy came to light)

White supremacy said all Black people were (are) less than. It wasn't limited to men
or women. For white men to turn around and ask why you can accept a white MAN as a white woman
but not a white woman as Black is some offensive bullshit for reasons I'm tired of yall
insensitive pricks trying to turn into something tangible or measurable.



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134. "ya'll niggas, the white and black and others among you, are wild as shit..."
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135. "i understand one and don't understand the other."
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But my understanding means nothing. If they like it I love it for them.

Moreover - if you support the exploratory process, plight,
>and rights of trans-gendered people, why do you mock and
>belittle those who identify as transracial?
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>I'm not particularly interested in the conservative opinion
>here, whereby they think transgendered *and* transracial are
>silly concepts not worthy of equal rights under the law.
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>I'm more interested in the progressive opinion - whereby in
>one respect, the cause of transgendered people is championed,
>yet on the flip side, the mere mention of transracial is a
>crime worthy of condemnation and clowning.
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>Do tell.
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139. "trans ppl have existed for centuries"
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here's an excerpt of Janet Mock discussing mahuwahine, fa'afafine, and fakaleiti--pre-colonial Polynesian terms for transgender:

(Kindle screenshot)
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/302/18759517411_236aa26d85_b.jpg

here are some other cultures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender#Transgender_people_in_non-Western_cultures

also, science
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender#Brain-based_studies

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141. "Buddy and Vex...thank you"
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For NOT engaging in intellectual dishonesty.

We cant impose our own parameters when it suits us.

If we're gonna be open minded, lets commit fully to the concept of respecting one's choice to self identify, no matter how weird.

This Rachel chick is not a good candidate cause she lied too much about everything but the story still raises questions that cannot be brushed off easily. Saying transracial is not a "thing" does not discount it. Things that were never things have to start their new life as a thing someday. I only just found out ablist was a thing two weeks ago...lol. And I'm not even sold on it fully.

I have always been fascinated by that awkward fuzzy area where identity briefly reveals itself as the absurd concept it actually is.

And yet I think post-racial thought is a crock of shit.

  

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146. "Too be fair, I don't if I am completely sold on either."
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I actually found a lot to agree with in Elanor Burkett's op ed piece critical of trans genserism.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/opinion/sunday/what-makes-a-woman.html?_r=0&referrer=

It's a good read but she was thoroughly denounced for it.

But I can get down with the general principal live and let live so I don't even have to think too hard about understanding either of them.

I do think I am sympathetic to the white lady because she seems to have a long track record of supporting black causes. I wish more black people would join the NAACP. You should see all the comments of people taking shots at the NAACP when these ninjas fail to remember is there would be no integrated America without the NAACP.

Anyway, more than anything I hate hypocrisy and if folks came up with a decent distinction between the two I would acknowledge it but folks haven't and are being dishonest with themselves by not admitting that there isn't a good distinction.


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148. "Not everybody views that as a good thing."
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>there would be no integrated America without the NAACP.
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I'm of the opinion that we were better off segregated, and I'm definitely not the only one.



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264. "Things that people say ONLY after integration for $100 Alex. "
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>>there would be no integrated America without the NAACP.
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>I'm of the opinion that we were better off segregated, and I'm
>definitely not the only one.
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334. "Garvey said it prior..."
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and of course people sometimes don't realize they didn't need what they wanted
until they get it. That's just life.

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414. "How'd that work out for the Garvey-ites?"
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498. "Pretty well until integration. What has integration done for "
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Black unemployment levels?
Number of Black folk killed by police...
etc?

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149. "she's good as any because you can't be transracial without lying"
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if your birth parents aren't black.

  

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151. "Slippery slope. "
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If you think a transracial is lieing then what about this...

A man with balls and a penis who has competed against the most elite male atheletes in the whole world tells me he is actually a woman?
Should I call him a liar? Or should I say "Hey I can respect that. Do you"?

I lean towards allowing a transgendered woman to perform her femininity.

Race (especially in America) too is "performed". This was clearly demonstrated by all the funny #AskRachel memes. Most white people with an afinity for black culture for instance can answer 95% of all of those questions quite accurately.

I just read the article Buddy posted in his reply to me and it has articulated some of what I have observed in how some women react to gay or transgendered people. They are not flattered by their performance of femininity. Even going as far as to find it offensive because it borders on reductionist fetishism. But they don't get to deny a trans woman because it does not vibe with their woman. Might the same not apply to race?

Read the article with race goggles and holla back

  

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157. "What part of "performance" is police brutality?"
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>Race (especially in America) too is "performed".


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143. "I know that we're only loosely basing this thread on Rachel."
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But I just tried changing one of the variables of her situation.

What if she actually declared that she was transrace. She hasn't. She is saying 'I am black'. But what if she said 'I was born to white parents but have always felt black on the inside'. If she explicitly stated that I think I'd find what she's doing less problematic. But notice...it would be less likely that she would get a scholarship for Howard...less likely that she'd have a high ranking position at the NAACP....less likely that she'd be a university prof in African studies.

I think that's a really important distinction. If she did what Caitlyn did in her context.....she wouldn't lie. She wouldn't take a picture of her doctor'ed hair and say "Going natural for my birthday". The deception proves to me that she knows she will get something of value out of lying. Caitlyn Jenner is doing nothing of the sort. In short....we could conceivably condemn Rachel without closing the door on the existence of a transrace identity. A person who identified themselves as 'transrace' wouldn't receive the benefits that we think Rachel is after. (a more credible voice, victim-hood seeking, etc)

So this kinda opens up some room to move here. When we change our perceptions of Caitlyn from being a man to a woman....we can do so while recognizing that Caitlyn has not had ALL the experiences of a woman. She has not experienced sexist barriers to success. She has not experienced fear of sexual assault the same way that a nontrans woman has. And we're ok with that. But with what Rachel's doing....she's not giving us the opportunity to make that distinction in our perception of her.

  

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144. "RE: I know that we're only loosely basing this thread on Rachel."
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it's as if Caitlyn were to say....'I identify as a woman and have struggled with the burden of sexism all my life.' That's what Rachel is doing. I'd imagine our response would be 'ok we get that you feel like a woman....but you have NOT experienced those issues like other women have'.

  

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147. "Caitlyn Jenner is DOING exactly what you said she isn't doing. "
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Caitlyn Jenner is not saying I am a transwoman. She is saying I am a Woman. The fact is we know Caitlyn is a trans because we remember when she was Bruce. We know her history.

Are you saying that transwomen who identify as "Women" and don't explicitly describe themselves as "Transwomen" are lying??!?!


And let's admit another thing. If an interviewer or reporter was interviewing a transwoman, and asked her if she was a man or a woman. And kept repeatingly badgering her about whether she was truly a woman. We would all think that that reporter was a dickhead right?


Try again.


>But I just tried changing one of the variables of her
>situation.
>
>What if she actually declared that she was transrace. She
>hasn't. She is saying 'I am black'. But what if she said 'I
>was born to white parents but have always felt black on the
>inside'. If she explicitly stated that I think I'd find what
>she's doing less problematic. But notice...it would be less
>likely that she would get a scholarship for Howard...less
>likely that she'd have a high ranking position at the
>NAACP....less likely that she'd be a university prof in
>African studies.
>
>I think that's a really important distinction. If she did
>what Caitlyn did in her context.....she wouldn't lie. She
>wouldn't take a picture of her doctor'ed hair and say "Going
>natural for my birthday". The deception proves to me that she
>knows she will get something of value out of lying. Caitlyn
>Jenner is doing nothing of the sort. In short....we could
>conceivably condemn Rachel without closing the door on the
>existence of a transrace identity. A person who identified
>themselves as 'transrace' wouldn't receive the benefits that
>we think Rachel is after. (a more credible voice, victim-hood
>seeking, etc)
>
>So this kinda opens up some room to move here. When we change
>our perceptions of Caitlyn from being a man to a woman....we
>can do so while recognizing that Caitlyn has not had ALL the
>experiences of a woman. She has not experienced sexist
>barriers to success. She has not experienced fear of sexual
>assault the same way that a nontrans woman has. And we're ok
>with that. But with what Rachel's doing....she's not giving
>us the opportunity to make that distinction in our perception
>of her.
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171. "It's simple:"
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Caitlyn Jenner is not attaching herself to the historical struggles of women and the experience of growing up in a sexist world. She's not attaching herself to being discouraged from male-dominated fields. At least to my knowledge.

Rachel IS. She's attaching herself to the struggles of having African hair in a society that judges it. Attaching herself to the experience of being a victim of hate crime. Attaching herself to the experience of growing up in a racist world.

That difference is good enough for me to accept one and not the other. And I feel intellectually consistent in doing so.

  

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262. "This is called a dinstinction without a difference. "
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>Caitlyn Jenner is not attaching herself to the historical
>struggles of women and the experience of growing up in a
>sexist world. She's not attaching herself to being
>discouraged from male-dominated fields. At least to my
>knowledge.
>
>Rachel IS. She's attaching herself to the struggles of having
>African hair in a society that judges it.

So her hairstyle choice is what's making the difference? She can't rock braids because only black people are allowed to wear braids? Are black women attaching themselves to white people by straightening their hair?


Attaching herself to the experience of being a victim of hate crime.


Listen either it happened or it did not. If it didn't happen. Shame on her. That would be indefensible. However why are folks so dismissive they are certain it didn't happen? This story is so convoluting people's sense of right and wrong that now people are sounding like the sexist who don't believe a woman's claims of sexual harrasment except this time it's racial harrasment. I personally could see a white woman who was "acting black" in a white environment would certainly be a prime target for racial harrasment.

Attaching
>herself to the experience of growing up in a racist world.
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>That difference is good enough for me to accept one and not
>the other. And I feel intellectually consistent in doing so.




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156. "That "going natural" bullshit offends me more than any of it really..."
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Her hair is naturally straight. foh.
It's like some elaborate joke and mockery of Black culture/existence where she's playing dress-up.

As for her lying about being Black, I'm side-eyeing the people who bought and allowed it
more than I'm side-eyeing her.

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155. "there is no difference bc you are who you are... "
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you can identify with a race but u can't just wake up one day and decide to be that race... u can alter your appearance and to further identify with said race but again you can't change ur dna and become that race...

same with transgender... you can alter your appearance and take as many hormones as you want but ur still who you are. you can alter your choices but you can never escape who you are at the core...

just my 2 cents

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158. "Melissa-Harris Perry is talking about it"
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and making some great points this morning that many of you had made.

the national response to this is as interesting (if not more interesting) than the
actual story.

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159. "Transrace is a new white supremacist buzzword. White privilege"
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The idea that you can wear blackface and preform as a black person when it suits you. And it's being framed by transgender-ism while somehow ignoring centuries of black people attempting to "pass" as white through harmful skin lightening & hurtful hair straightening

Starting the conversation at transgendered white man is some white supremacist bullshit & I'm not surprised to see it being pushed by Vex or Buddy

  

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160. "lol this is such non-sense, but entertaining non-sense."
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Act brand new and blind to what the leading academics, scholars, and cultural commentators are actually saying - but a myriad of progressives (black, white, trans, etc..) are facilitating discussions on transrace and talking about this with real depth, as opposed to your attempt to outright dismiss it because it makes you uncomfortable.


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161. "I outright dismissed "transracialism" when framed by the Jenner situatio..."
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instead of the historical context of actual people of color who to this day just want to get to a point where their color doesn't define them because it isn't something that can be slipped off whenever its convenient unlike this woman who lied about her background

  

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164. "you dismissed the mere mention of "transrace" as white supremacist jargo..."
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regardless of whether it was framed/paralleled to transgender.

Nobody is even defending this NAACP woman in here (other than defending her right to self-identify) - we're talking about transrace in the vein of transgender because there are undeniable parallels (and nuances) that provides for an interesting discussion.

You don't even want that discussion to be had.

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181. "I find it absolutely consistent to dismiss transgenderism and transracia..."
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That's morally and logically consistent.


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162. "I'm with what Buddy said ultimately:"
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"My only issue with the concept of transrace is the idea of white folks taking advantage of programs that are set aside for minorities. Other than that why does anyone really give a fuk?"

Essentially, it's honestly too new of a concept (new meaning becoming a national buzzword, talk show topic, trending matter, etc.) for anyone to have a truly valuable comment on the situation without it veering into the opinion space.

Race and Gender are constructs that define one's human experience but to say race has a parallel with gender...it's tricky and almost dishonest to try and compare the two as if it's that static. I think we're all wise enough to realize it has and never will be that simple.

So, at the moment, just like most things that I'm not saddled with, if one wants to self-identify in a manner that makes them feel at peace, as long as it's not for selfish gain I'm largely going to keep it moving and not seek to tear it down.

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163. "Man, its so entertaining watching people justify one and not the other....."
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Personally, I respect ones decision to identify as woman but it doesnt mean I agree with it.

I knew this was next and its crazy seeing people on here rock for one but not the other because they feel it belongs to them.

This is exactly how evangelicals and conservatives feel when it comes to sexuality.

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165. "that's the dangerous crossroads right there."
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>I knew this was next and its crazy seeing people on here rock
>for one but not the other because they feel it belongs to
>them.
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>This is exactly how evangelicals and conservatives feel when
>it comes to sexuality.
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And like you, it's odd that people don't think it possible for one to respect a person's choice but not agree with it. Like that's a melding of thoughts couldn't intersect for some reason.

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172. "Post 171."
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I think it's pretty irrefutable.

  

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266. "Naw, that post is pretty refutable. "
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166. "People may not like the comparative analysis w/ gender,"
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but there are parallels. There are differences as well, but to pretend as if there are no parallels is also intellectually dishonest. Where the parallel has meaning is in the basic philosophical foundation of one's thinking on why transgendered people should be respected: You are respecting their right to self-identify and not let a social construct (which they find limiting) wholly define who they are. That philosophy is transferrable into the transrace arena.

People's conceptions of race and gender greatly differ as it pertains to identity politics. Some don't want transgendered people to be able to challenge the conventional definitions of what gender, 'male' and 'female' and 'marriage' mean - others don't want what we're calling 'transrace' people to be able to challenge those conventional definitions of race. Both want people to shut up and fit within the conventional boxes of both gender and race, but are approaching that conclusion from very different paths.

There are parallels and there are differences with gender and race, and sometimes those difference don't have as much to do with the social constructs as it does the person who has developed an identity around those constructs, and reflexively seeks to defend those constructs based on how they self-identify.


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167. "Potential biological and chemical urges are present in one case"
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and probably not the other.

Gender is also a pretty clear distinction (though not always entirely clear) where race is partly biological but largely defined socially.

Personally I don't buy into identifying oneself along lines of racial, religious, regional or cultural identity but I don't begrudge people who do either. So it's hard for me to be up in arms or have open arms about someone wants to be "transracial," if that's going to be a word now. I just say be who you are, if you feel that person has lighter skin or darker skin or speaks with a certain affectation, OK, but understand that not everyone will be receptive to that.

And you will know MY JACKET IS GOLD when I lay my vengeance upon thee.

  

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168. "this is why:"
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>Moreover - if you support the exploratory process, plight,
>and rights of trans-gendered people, why do you mock and
>belittle those who identify as transracial?

http://www.tmz.com/2015/06/02/chet-haze-n-word-rap-tom-hanks-son/

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169. "RE: What is the distinguishing difference between transgender & transrac..."
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I tend to agree with the sentiments Elinor Burkett expressed in the NYT article, posted, now, twice in this thread.

Especially, I wonder, on this issue, about the implications of this point:

"...By defining womanhood the way he did to Ms. Sawyer, Mr. Jenner and the many advocates for transgender rights who take a similar tack ignore those realities. In the process, they undermine almost a century of hard-fought arguments that the very definition of female is a social construct that has subordinated us. And they undercut our efforts to change the circumstances we grew up with."

I don't know what the distinguishing difference is between transgender and transrace.

What I've read and experienced about either is laughable. I don't pretend to know much and don't want to speak for people. And likely, I'm committing the ugliness of speaking on something I know not much about. Anything I say = grain of salt.

I think in both cases (transgender and transrace), *individuals* are making assertions about the relationship of *their* personal identity to society and community. The primary ground of the conversation seems to center on rights.

What's troubling to me is a kind of erasure, revisionism, and collapsing/glossing that's happening around instances where the power dynamic of oppressor and oppressed (which seems to masquerade behind a lot of this) is cast into light because of the transgender conversation.

Out of basic sensitivity and respect, which *all* seem to agree is needful: those in our society who have experienced the power dynamic and position of *oppressor* (for whatever reason or circumstance and however actively or unconsciously) who are trans but take on/live/embrace identities as the *oppressed* should be mindful that for those who are *oppressed*--

there is no “freeing” change, there is no mistake, there is not a wrong place and a right place for them to "go to" or journey towards to find themselves.

For some, STILL our Blackness and our Womanhood is degraded, disrespected, ignored. We know not to ask for or expect. Instead, we’ve had to fight. Will continue to.

When it comes to Caitlyn and Rachel what I want to know is: Sister, have you been fighting for or against me? Me: me also meaning "us," the "us" you are part of. Sister, do you know and understand the struggle?

Because I can’t just throw the shackles off my feet so I can dance, Sis. And I'm living an authentic life as MY damn self, too. So many are. Often in the face of serious consequences, which Sister, you may be able to understand and identify with.

So welcome to the party, but what's your consciousness like? And if you’re down, you’re down. I have no problem. And really, no problem if you’re not. Peace be unto you. God knows, many have learned to keep marching and know how to make it in this world without acceptance and “equal” rights.

The oppressor and oppressed, in this country, often live in and have access to radically different realities.

I can’t overlook that Caitlyn and Rachel have relationship to Whiteness (one transwoman, one cis-woman) which may assume framing about gender and race which are problematic in so far as their experiences *may* invite them to assume posturings and understandings in relation to the fact that all things oppression (especially developing the psyche of an oppressor) is so deeply knit, nurtured, and encouraged in our society.

As a Black woman-- I have a problem when someone looking from the vantage point or position of an oppressor begins to "explore," question, engage, or challenge Womanhood or Blackness without acknowledging that the framing of the desired Womanhood or Blackness isn't neutral, natural, wholesomely good (because it celebrates the individual), objective, or whatever else. So. Great: be a woman. Be Black. Free yourself. But did you free yourself from all the education and experience in oppression?

I don’t assert that either woman *hasn’t* done such a thing.

All I'm saying is don't drink the water, we need it for the fire!