Why are so many white authors so obsessed with freckles
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Replying to @benjanun_s
same reason as with blonde hair, red hair, green eyes, blue eyes we see them as a marker of racial purity
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Red hair and freckles are both associated with a mutation of the MC1R gene, which causes the skin to stop producing melanin normally, making pheomelanin rather than eumelanin (red rather that brown) that clumps rather than being evenly spread
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Replying to @arthur_affect @benjanun_s
only us white people could view mutants as racially pure
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Well, being white in the first place was a mutation (i I mean everything is a mutation)
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Tbh historically we've gone back and forth a lot over whether freckled redheads are fetishized or stigmatized Antisemites historically regarded it as a "Jewish" trait, bullying "gingers" is a thing in England because of anti-Irish prejudice
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