For what it’s worth, as an outsider to the black community, I see the Rachel Dolezal case differently. I read that her kids were black. And her friends. It felt like she wanted acceptance as an insider in the black community. I don’t condone what she did, but I understand it in the same way I understand a trans woman wanting to pass.
For what it’s worth, as an outsider to the black community, I see the Rachel Dolezal case differently. I read that her kids were black. And her friends. It felt like she wanted acceptance as an insider in the black community. I don’t condone what she did, but I understand it in the same way I understand a trans woman wanting to pass.
I think I understand why people are upset. It feels like it ignores the history of the black experience, in the same way that Alex ignored my history as a woman. But something about the force with which people came down on Rachel didn’t sit right. Maybe I am not as familiar with the case as others are, and also I am not black.
The arguments lefty blacks make against transracialism are *exactly* the same arguments they condone in regard to gender-switching, which is where the hypocrisy in the movement lies. They're right when they claim that 'race is just a social construct'. Well, there are clearly racial differences since, if I could still make babies, I could never produce a black or Chinese one unless I was impregnated by a black or Chinese guy. Racial differences are just surficial and reflect the way our bodies adapted to different climates and environments as we moved out of Africa. It's a lot more complicated with gender switching which is *not* a 'social construct' as they claim and involves a lot more medical effort for a true transition than race-switching would be. And it doesn't change what's between the ears, which grew up male/female.
For what it’s worth, as an outsider to the black community, I see the Rachel Dolezal case differently. I read that her kids were black. And her friends. It felt like she wanted acceptance as an insider in the black community. I don’t condone what she did, but I understand it in the same way I understand a trans woman wanting to pass.
I think I understand why people are upset. It feels like it ignores the history of the black experience, in the same way that Alex ignored my history as a woman. But something about the force with which people came down on Rachel didn’t sit right. Maybe I am not as familiar with the case as others are, and also I am not black.
The arguments lefty blacks make against transracialism are *exactly* the same arguments they condone in regard to gender-switching, which is where the hypocrisy in the movement lies. They're right when they claim that 'race is just a social construct'. Well, there are clearly racial differences since, if I could still make babies, I could never produce a black or Chinese one unless I was impregnated by a black or Chinese guy. Racial differences are just surficial and reflect the way our bodies adapted to different climates and environments as we moved out of Africa. It's a lot more complicated with gender switching which is *not* a 'social construct' as they claim and involves a lot more medical effort for a true transition than race-switching would be. And it doesn't change what's between the ears, which grew up male/female.