• Troy@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Going to throw this out there: self identification as a member of racial/ethnic/cultural group will become a hot button. Right now the left screams “cultural appropriation!” when this happens. But appropriating another gender is somehow okay. There’s a real mismatch here in logic, and at some point in the future this will flip. Like, currently it’s okay for me to say “I identify as a woman” but not “I identify as a black woman”. How does that even make sense?

    • wizzwizz4@fosstodon.org
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      1 year ago

      I think that’s mostly an American thing: they think that their “racial” categories are the same thing as ethnicity, and since race is defined by racists (who believe that it’s an innate inherited trait), it’s constrained by them too.

      “I was born French, but now I consider myself Corsican.” is an uncommon but perfectly normal thing in Europe.

      American racism is just absurd, even by racism standards. That absurdity even influences American anti-racism.

    • magnetosphere@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Good question. Men and women generally have radically different traditional roles, limitations, stereotypes, and expectations. The same can be said of white people and Black people. So, why is it okay to identify as one but not the other?

      Most questions I see involving identity aren’t asked in good faith, but this is an interesting one. Granted, it’s probably been addressed repeatedly, but I haven’t come across it before.