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> She's not “black” nor was that claimed; she’s “Black”. You must be deep inside some cultural bubble not to see how hilarious this sounds.
by bzb6 6y ago
> She's not “black” nor was that claimed; she’s “Black”.
You must be deep inside some cultural bubble not to see how hilarious this sounds.
- dragonwriter 6y agoHey, look, I'm not the engineer of the European oppression that created the modern racial identities (largely through shared experience of oppression, except White identity, which was created through shared experience as oppressors) and shaped most of the language around those identities. If you want to argue that the categories make no fundamental sense, you aren't wrong in their original delineation; they are groups of shared experience (which is also why even when the terms are the same or deeply etymologically linked, they have different concrete meaning in places where the historical experience worked differently; places, for instance, where the “one drop rule” [0] was a major historical force will, all other things being equal, have a far more expansive concept of “Blackness”.) [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule
- istjohn 6y agoWhite people aren't white, either[1]. Maybe I'm sitting at the bottom of a deep cultural abyss, too. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Luschan%27s_chromatic_scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Luschan%27s_chromatic_scal...