Righty blogs this week: "This Rachel Dolezal thing just proves our point!" "What point? That all black people are secretly white?" "Um.."
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@HbdNrx It can be a social construct but non-arbitrary. "Being the President" is social/non-genetic, but Obama has a stronger claim than I. -
@slatestarcodex nobody says "being the president is just a social construct" as a way to imply that the presidency doesn't exist, though -
@HbdNrx Something can exist as a social construct and matter a lot socially (as liberals admit race does). -
@slatestarcodex actual prog position when they say that is really that there are no non-superficial biological differences between races -
@HbdNrx Prog position is black identity comes from being raised black and treated as black for whole life. You can't just dye your hair.
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@HbdNrx Analogy: is guy whose family has been in US for 100s of years American? How about tourist who puts on Uncle Sam hat & eats hot dog?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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