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matrixmann) wrote2019-09-05 11:22 am
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Black and white
Critical question towards the intersectionalists and Identity Politics fanatics: What do you actually mean if you talk about "white"? Which kind of people are all included in this?
Is it only Central Europeans? Do people from Asia fall into the same category for you too?
What about Eastern Europeans or Russians? Or about Italians, Spaniards, Greeks?
Does "white" mean "all non-black people" - or is it the title only for a particular group of people (among "whites")?
And, if talking about "black" - what are you thinking of in that point? Does this include only sub-Saharan Africans - or also people with a comparable dark skin tone (like e. g. Cubans)?
Or is everyone automatically "black" if he cannot fit the category "white"? If his skin tone is too dark for that?
Is it only Central Europeans? Do people from Asia fall into the same category for you too?
What about Eastern Europeans or Russians? Or about Italians, Spaniards, Greeks?
Does "white" mean "all non-black people" - or is it the title only for a particular group of people (among "whites")?
And, if talking about "black" - what are you thinking of in that point? Does this include only sub-Saharan Africans - or also people with a comparable dark skin tone (like e. g. Cubans)?
Or is everyone automatically "black" if he cannot fit the category "white"? If his skin tone is too dark for that?
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Ha-ha, obviously it must be how dark your skin is. I once got really tan after a vacation at the Black Sea, so I guess at some point I also was black!
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So... what of a nonsense is all that stuff.
Btw, taking a look at East Asia - Japanese, Chinese and people from the Philippines also don't look the same, except maybe that they got slitted eyes as a body feature.
Sure nobody from Indonesia or so would see himself linked with sub-Saharan Africans just because they have a pretty dark skin color from living in an area around the earth's equator.
Africans would be the same; they don't even regard themselves as "one race, one people" inside all of Africa itself.