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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Should society allow and accept people who want to identify as a gender other than what they were assigned at birth? || Should society allow and accept people who want to identify as a race other than what they were assigned at birth?
  • yes || yes
    29%
  • yes || no
    41.3%
  • no || yes
    2.1%
  • no || no
    27.6%
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Cody
@codybaldwin
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@Aella_Girl
Identity is causal. We use them to solve problems. There's no collective consciousness (that's an oxymoron), and no one mind has access to knowledge another mind doesn't, in principle (computational universality). So, there's an objective answer here. & It's the most loving one.
Valet Parker
@702ValetParker
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@Aella_Girl
People wanting to identify as another race seems like a slap in the face to whatever race they’re trying to identify as. Imagine the most privileged white person trying to actually identify as a black person or Hispanic, or Asian person. So cringy considering they’ve never
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Caliban Darklock
@cdarklock
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@Aella_Girl
Yes|Yes but society isn't ready for that second "yes" yet. We're still fighting over race, and that fight involves various affirmative actions, and as long as we have those your identified race comes with benefits which you would be "stealing" from others of that race.
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Len
@Len_Ult
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@Aella_Girl
I think ethnicity is to race as gender is to sex. So I voted yes || no but would be a yes || yes for trans-ethnicity.
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