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I just wanna briefly mention that POC can get skin cancer too. Sunscreen is for everyone!
One example of why it is sometimes important to step outside the “race” lens, notably in medicine. More often than not in this domain it just propagates harmful stereotypes that postpone important choices.
I think it’s pretty obvious that this article was written by a white guy. Part of the article feels like the author was writing about his own unique experiences as a white person.
Being that the article was written from the perspective of a white guy, some of the article may be misinformed on the experiences of nonwhite people.
this is the author of the article
tell everybody you’re “part Italian” https://nitter.net/iamandyholt/status/1441638709833601024
Wtf noo what happened? I feel like I missed something, they seemed to be cool, what happened?
This, also, you can’t be racist to white people because there is no such thing as a white race. Go ask a racist if Italians, Irish or Russians are white,
Ok, but there is no more a black race (much less “Asian” or whatever other massively sweeping descriptors self-described white people have come up with) than a white one. These groups are constructed, not founded in any factual basis. They’re real in their consequences because they’re either A. genuinely believed to be real or B. used cynically for material benefit.
yes, this is true, but the “white race” is especially dumb because there seems to be some kind of arbitrary scale of whiteness that determines if you belong or not.
It’s not really arbitrary. I have indigenous and former slave ancestors, but I appear white and receive all the benefits of being white in the US. I’m sure my miscegenation would keep me out of the white ethnostate eventually, but the non deranged white liberals accept me, and right now that’s all that matters.
Racism is the purview of the dumb and the evil alike. In both cases, they are driven to assert their place in the hierarchy and visible features or cultural practices are a convenient heuristic to use for categorization. It is arbitrary, because an arbitrary system gives immense power to the one who can actually make and enforce decisions.
But the “White Race” includes anyone it wants to include and changes constantly. It has functioned as a tool of the imperial core for its entire existence. The other races seem to exist solely as a reflection of the existence of the “White Race”, in that they exist to point out that X ethnic group of people is not part of the in-crowd.
I don’t think completely dismissing it as a racist or class reductionist talking point is a good idea. There is more to explore within it but obviously it’s a subject that requires a great deal of care in exploring.
I think a lot of people, especially white liberals, have seriously misunderstood why exactly racism is bad.
Racism is not an evil just because it’s rude or mean or uncivil or whatever. Racism is not even an evil just because it generalizes large groups of people as having negative attributes. That kind of surface level understanding of racism leads people to say outrageous shit like “white people have to deal with racism just as often as everyone else” or “ACAB is a generalization based on the same kind of logic racists use” (Someone actually said that to me the day after George Floyd was murdered)
The actual reason racism is a malignant, reactionary tumor that must be stamped out everywhere it exists is because of the long and ongoing history wherein white people have continuously used it as the justification for the enslavement, colonization, and oppression of those who they’ve arbitrarily racialized. Racism measurably makes the lives of BIPOC people much worse on a systemic level, whereas “racism” against white people might hurt some cracker’s feelings for an hour or so before their privilege allows them to forget about it.
Seriously, did your mom fuck an NPR tote bag?
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