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> > if you’re not trans you may not understand transphobia very well but it’s similar to white people saying they don’t think something is racist > This is jus

> > if you’re not trans you may not understand transphobia very well but it’s similar to white people saying they don’t think something is racist > This is just a terrible, terrible argument, that leads to a continual ratcheting up and broadening of the definition of "transphobia". I don’t follow. While people not understanding racism is a very real phenomenon caused by the fact that white people in the USA are the dominant group and considered “raceless” and the “default” while non white people get all kinds of subtle discrimination regularly. It makes sense that non white people would be better judges of racism than many white people. Why would this not also make sense for trans people?

foogazi 4y ago
> It makes sense that non white people would be better judges of racism than many white people. I don’t get this Racism is a clearly defined concept - from Oxford dictionary: 1. prejudice, discrimination or antagonism against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular ethnic group 2. the belief that different races possess distinct characteristics, abilities, or qualities, especially so as to distinguish them as inferior or superior to one another. Why do you think some races are better than others at judging racism ?
- rendall 4y ago
  I have had black friends point out incidents of anti-Black racism to me that I definitely hadn't seen before, but I have as often had black friends perceive racism where definitely none existed, and black friends who did not see it where it definitely did. It happens enough, that I think only people who don't have much interaction with different races and classes would believe that only black people can tell what racism is. People have all degrees of sensitivity, empathy, perceptivity and hair-trigger paranoia; sometimes in the same person.

foogazi 4y ago

> It makes sense that non white people would be better judges of racism than many white people. I don’t get this Racism is a clearly defined concept - from Oxford dictionary: 1. prejudice, discrimination or antagonism against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular ethnic group 2. the belief that different races possess distinct characteristics, abilities, or qualities, especially so as to distinguish them as inferior or superior to one another. Why do you think some races are better than others at judging racism ?

rendall 4y ago
I have had black friends point out incidents of anti-Black racism to me that I definitely hadn't seen before, but I have as often had black friends perceive racism where definitely none existed, and black friends who did not see it where it definitely did. It happens enough, that I think only people who don't have much interaction with different races and classes would believe that only black people can tell what racism is. People have all degrees of sensitivity, empathy, perceptivity and hair-trigger paranoia; sometimes in the same person.