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Yes, people who don’t follow the primary social narrative (which, funnily enough, revolves around being white, cis, heterosexual, male-and-dominant or female-an
by vertex-four 9y ago
Yes, people who don’t follow the primary social narrative (which, funnily enough, revolves around being white, cis, heterosexual, male-and-dominant or female-and-submissive, and so on and so forth) have always been seen as a threat. For a small amount of time, a group consisting primarily of gay men with minimal demands (i.e. stop directly physically harming us and, later, change a couple of forms) were in a political position in the West such that they couldn’t be ignored.
- andperseand 9y agoGiven that the article is about China and that the OP wrote about global trends you can probably remove 'white' from your list of descriptors...
- greglindahl 9y agoI don't know what the person you're responding to meant, but you might want to have a chat with your Chinese friends about different skin colors. Not only do many cultures have a thing about lighter skin shades, even the 1920s US backlash against immigration was mostly about 'swarthy' southern Europeans, who weren't as lily-white as northern Europeans.
- vertex-four 9y agoInterestingly, in the non-predominantly-white countries I’ve lived in, lighter skin tones are desired heavily, and are often a class indicator. People will use creams with ingredients like mercury to attempt to lighten their skin colour.