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This is embarrassing but I cried when SHillary lost to Trump.

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[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't think the answer (for white people) to "race is a social construct" should be "go one-drop yourself into an ethnic history you've never experienced and are half making up on the spot." If my great-great-great grandma is from Spain but the last few generations of my family lived in Flyover USA, it'd be pretty weird for me to wake up one day and go around telling everyone I'm Spanish. Weirder still if that ancestor was from Catalonia and I try to say I'm personally affected by the Catalan independence movement.

A better response is to not actively identify with any race or ethnicity and try to do things that address the damage done by those concepts.

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Holy Hell I haven't even said my piece and I'm already having my beliefs assumed

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't trying to do that; I'm speaking to what I've seen too many white people do.

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Wait so I was actually assuming your beliefs, then, rather than the reverse... That's a bit ironic, sorry about that.

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago