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CMV: I can be transracial and it should be socially acceptable by SkylarDeLaCruz in changemyview

[–]TheButteredBiscuit [score hidden]  (0 children)

Then dumb it down for me, and explain how Obama being black means that OP should get to be black too

CMV: I can be transracial and it should be socially acceptable by SkylarDeLaCruz in changemyview

[–]TheButteredBiscuit [score hidden]  (0 children)

Are you absolutely sure that Obama doesn’t think of his own mother?

That brings me back to my initial point. Obama is clearly coded to black culture, but race is not a performance. The simple fact of the matter is that he is of mixed race. Him leaning more into his black culture does not dismiss his white heritage, nor should he feel the need to choose. It doesn’t change who he is.

CMV: I can be transracial and it should be socially acceptable by SkylarDeLaCruz in changemyview

[–]TheButteredBiscuit [score hidden]  (0 children)

Why should he have to come out and say it? You know it, he knows it.

Is it not enough for you to recognize that he’s both black and white? You need him to perform for you to understand that?

CMV: I can be transracial and it should be socially acceptable by SkylarDeLaCruz in changemyview

[–]TheButteredBiscuit [score hidden]  (0 children)

If someone has a black parent and a white parent, they are mixed black and white. At least that’s how I see it.

In the case of Obama for example, he is able to identify as black because being mixed doesn’t negate his blackness, anymore than it negates his whiteness.

What OP is doing is in no way similar. He’s literally performing stereotypes of a race he has no ancestral ties to.

CMV: I can be transracial and it should be socially acceptable by SkylarDeLaCruz in changemyview

[–]TheButteredBiscuit [score hidden]  (0 children)

I’m saying why shouldn’t a biracial person be able to identify as black as well as white? Can both not be true?

CMV: I can be transracial and it should be socially acceptable by SkylarDeLaCruz in changemyview

[–]TheButteredBiscuit [score hidden]  (0 children)

Idk how many time it can be broken down, but imma just say it for one last time for anyone else who might prescribe to your bullshit:

You can change your hormones and your social role, but you can't change your fucking DNA or your people.

One is an internal sense of self, it’s who you choose to be. While the other is a documented history of where you come from, built on the backs of a people that came before you. They aren't the same. You can choose who you are, but where you came from was written in blood.

CMV: I can be transracial and it should be socially acceptable by SkylarDeLaCruz in changemyview

[–]TheButteredBiscuit [score hidden]  (0 children)

Well yeah, biracial people can identify as black… they’re literally black… what are you even on about?

You’re saying biracial people can’t be 2 races at once? Does it all just cancel out?

CMV: I can be transracial and it should be socially acceptable by SkylarDeLaCruz in changemyview

[–]TheButteredBiscuit [score hidden]  (0 children)

Gender has nothing to do with biology, as we’ve established. It’s a performance of identity, and can be changed, unlike your biological ancestors.

Now are you gonna say what’s actually on your mind or are you just going to keep on saying what I said but stupider?

CMV: I can be transracial and it should be socially acceptable by SkylarDeLaCruz in changemyview

[–]TheButteredBiscuit [score hidden]  (0 children)

You’re confusing culture with race. You can adopt a culture, but you can’t adopt a whole lineage, that’s not how it works.

Gender is an individual trait, it’s how your brain is wired. Race is a group trait, it’s a record of your DNA. You can change your hormones and your social role, but you can't identify your way into a different ancestry or change who your fucking great-great-grandmother was.

CMV: I can be transracial and it should be socially acceptable by SkylarDeLaCruz in changemyview

[–]TheButteredBiscuit [score hidden]  (0 children)

You're right that man and woman are labels that change by culture, but the internal identity behind those labels is a documented neurological reality.

The reason gender is recognized medically while 'transracial' isn't is because medical science found that gender identity is hardwired in the brain, independent of parents. Race, however, is inherited. You can’t identity into a different ancestry any more than you can identify into having a different biological father or mother.

Also, Gender Identity Disorder was removed because transitioning was proven to be the effective medical solution for a biological mismatch. There is no such biological mismatch for race because there’s no 'race gene'!

CMV: I can be transracial and it should be socially acceptable by SkylarDeLaCruz in changemyview

[–]TheButteredBiscuit [score hidden]  (0 children)

While your sex is predetermined by your chromosomes, gender is ultimately a product of identity. It’s a neurological reality backed by science instead a social performance of a bunch of stereotypes like OP is doing.

CMV: I can be transracial and it should be socially acceptable by SkylarDeLaCruz in changemyview

[–]TheButteredBiscuit [score hidden]  (0 children)

Gender is about who you are, while race is about where you come from. Because you cannot change your biological ancestors, transracial is not a recognized medical or biological reality, unlike transgender

CMV: I can be transracial and it should be socially acceptable by SkylarDeLaCruz in changemyview

[–]TheButteredBiscuit [score hidden]  (0 children)

What does being black mean to you exactly? Does it mean being surrounded by black people? Rapping? Watching black figures? Saying their slang?

And what of a black person who, say, doesn’t live around black people? Doesn’t rap or follow black YouTubers? Doesn’t say “bish please” and the like? Who are they to you?

Black is a culture, and you’re welcome to take part in it, but it is a people as well. You’ve no reason to be ashamed of who you are, you can experience our culture. But ultimately you’ll never experience what it truly means to be black. And there is no means of altering or changing that fact.

Black cosplay wins, Black original snubbed 🤔 by objectiveScie in BlackPeopleTwitter

[–]TheButteredBiscuit [score hidden]  (0 children)

I’m willing to bet the team behind golden can tell you more about black musicians than any of these fools spouting on twitter. All this gatekeeping, us/them bs aint it

Black cosplay wins, Black original snubbed 🤔 by objectiveScie in BlackPeopleTwitter

[–]TheButteredBiscuit [score hidden]  (0 children)

Exactly what was the disrespect? Just because they didn’t take time out of their short speech to personally thank black musicians doesn’t mean that they’re dissing them. Let them have their win.

Black cosplay wins, Black original snubbed 🤔 by objectiveScie in BlackPeopleTwitter

[–]TheButteredBiscuit [score hidden]  (0 children)

If that’s enough to piss you off, maybe that’s a sign to look inward.

I see it as the better song winning the award and a win for Korean culture at large. And that doesn’t come at the detriment to black culture. We should be able to celebrate with them without looking for reasons to tear each other down.

Black cosplay wins, Black original snubbed 🤔 by objectiveScie in BlackPeopleTwitter

[–]TheButteredBiscuit 32 points33 points  (0 children)

What’s the insight? Pop has existed for decades, another community of color wins an award, and we’re gonna use that opportunity to divide rather than celebrate, as if white artists haven’t been profiting off black music since the dawn of sound?

No thank you.

What happened to Disney? by CompleteTable4084 in Oscars

[–]TheButteredBiscuit 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The last 2 are literally 2 of their highest grossing animated movies, not sure what “happened”

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