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Our bureaucratic preoccupation with racial and gender categories is much like those who segmented bloodlines into Untouchables, or royalty. (As if it was ever i
by calibraxis 11y ago
Our bureaucratic preoccupation with racial and gender categories is much like those who segmented bloodlines into Untouchables, or royalty. (As if it was ever impressive to be related to some glorified dictator called a "king".) Consider that, depending on your racial category, it may be ok for the US state to choke you to death in public.
Even just to speak normal English, you have to basically surveil into people's genders. (He/she. One consequence is you have to cram many people into a false category, like a bureaucrat only having yes/no on the form.)
- rrss1122 11y ago"Consider that, depending on your racial category, it may be ok for the US state to choke you to death in public." It is never OK, ever.
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- hyperpape 11y agoI think they clearly don't mean "really ok" but "will be treated as ok by the government".
- proveanegative 11y agoYour jab against monarchy is unwarranted. A hereditary monarch who is recognized as legitimate has better incentives than a garden variety military dictator.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoJabs against monarchy are always warranted.
- krapp 11y ago>it may be ok for the US state to choke you to death in public. For a certain value of 'ok' that accepts that most Americans find such behavior repellant, and that it's not actually legal (much less mandated by the state) for cops to murder people for being of the 'wrong race' (despite it being, apparently, easy for them to get away with.)
- scarmig 11y agoAnd the Soviet Union also had a wonderful constitution that enshrined legal protections for bodily integrity, religious practice, freedom of speech and thought...