Righty blogs this week: "This Rachel Dolezal thing just proves our point!" "What point? That all black people are secretly white?" "Um.."
@slatestarcodex actual prog position when they say that is really that there are no non-superficial biological differences between races
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@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.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HbdNrx Arguably white person adopted at birth by black family, never treated any differently from other blacks is black as per prog def. -
@slatestarcodex Yet we accept people raised from birth as male to decide later on that they're actually female. -
@slatestarcodex I've actually observed more than one other person with "racial dysphoria" -
@HbdNrx I have had a couple black psych patients who thought they were white, come to think of it, but always otherwise psychotic too. -
@slatestarcodex one person I knew IRL was white/Jewish but got really into SJW classes in college and ended up deciding that -
@slatestarcodex a black prof was like a surrogate mother to her.She really wanted to *become*black and actually thought of them astruefamily
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@HbdNrx I'd argue first guy is much more American than 2nd guy because he has absorbed US values, even if both are from same genetic stock.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@slatestarcodex yet here's someone superficially black who's not being accepted -
@HbdNrx But that person *would* be treated differently from other blacks based on skin color, and *this* woman just dyed her hair or smthng
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