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> ethnicity choosing going on. Totally without scientific merit, yet the left behaves as if it's science. Are you suggesting that "transracialism" is treated a
by hsod 9y ago
> ethnicity choosing going on. Totally without scientific merit, yet the left behaves as if it's science.
Are you suggesting that "transracialism" is treated as science or supported by anything approaching the mainstream left?
- RickJWag 9y agoYes. I haven't seen anyone on the left disputing or disparaging it.
- SauciestGNU 9y agoAnd that could be an attitudinal thing. Why should I care about how someone else personally identifies? Why should I be disparaging about something that will have minimal or no effect on me? I think this is part of why some conservatives find themselves unwelcome. Being outwardly disparaging toward people does not make you friends.
- RickJWag 9y agoI'm offering an alternative view of "bat shit crazy". It may be harmless (as you correctly point out), but it is not tethered to reality.
- hsod 9y agoFascinating. Have you seen the mainstream left be actively accepting of it? Rachel Dolezal (by far the most famous case that I know of) was pilloried by the left for cultural appropriation: https://www.google.com/search?ei=x-UhWuymEIyojwOc6Kz4Bw&q=rachel+dolezal+cultural+approriation https://www.google.com/search?ei=x-UhWuymEIyojwOc6Kz4Bw&q=ra...
- RickJWag 9y agoThanks for providing the search link. By my reading, a lot of those are sympathetic to Dolezal, not critical. Shouldn't there be universal condemnation?
- krapp 9y agoWhy should there be universal condemnation or acceptance? "The left" is not a spec or rigidly defined ideological canon that all "leftists" conform to. As with "the right", "capitalists", "socialists" or any other political or cultural generalization, actual "leftists" can comprise a spectrum of acceptance or disagreement.