Can you be trans-racial?

[mikey3000]

Obviously you didn't read the whole article, but I'm not really suprised, so I'll spell it out for you. There are genetic differences among the races. The continuous process of evolution makes certain of that. Race is not something one can change at will.

 

[JPGhost]

"It's not race I have a problem with, it's your culture I don't like" is often a hiding place for racists. You know as well as I do there are plenty of Australians who don't want Japanese or Southeast Asians in Australia, and can't stand aboriginals....

Or the other way around..(vice versa)

 

[JPGhost]

You are redefining culture as race.

As pretty (and as scientifically true) as the claim may be that "race doesn't even really exist", it's a social reality in our world and has been for centuries. And it is NOT culture. People who do not like your race are going to find a way to let you know that very clearly regardless of which "culture" you embrace, even if it's theirs.

My race is multiracial, or I could list each of them. Either is completely valid in my mind. It's another white western idea that you can only have one checkmark on the box or have to "just pick one group if you have more than one." ..

Well, if I can help you with that problem.. you can simply choose who you love more? Mommy or daddy? ^^

 

[JPGhost]

I have had an epiphany! I now know my true identity! Henceforth I'm identifying as trans-age: I'm really a fresh-faced twenty-two-year-old twink trapped in the body of an old git.

 

[xbuzzerx]

Well, if I can help you with that problem.. you can simply choose who you love more? Mommy or daddy? ^^

lol. Potato or rice.

 

[JPGhost]

And one of those things that don't change is race. You can identify another race, but you can't become it. Grey Owl might have identified with being a person of the First Nations, and he might have pretended to be and passed himself off as one, but he never, ever, stopped being Caucasian.

Dolezal might identify with being black, but she will never, ever, be it.

You mean "your biological ethnicity?" so yes..and you can also assume that a person could identify and pretending to be opposite sex but he/she will never be? ..Fully ..Right? ^^

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lol. Potato or rice.

Yes, at least you have the genetic..not like my little sister who favor her white boyfriend than her family

 

[JPGhost]

No we are not the same and never ever will be the same. You ignore the issue of white privilege. White people like rachel dolezal and chet haze use blackness like it is a t shirt. They think black is cool but they do not want the burden of the consequences of being black. You are attempting to erase history and the white supremacist world we lived in. Unlike you I cannot ignore the past because it informs the present. Rachel dolezal is a typical white person she appropriated black culture like many white people do for personal gain. This cow certainly was not black when she whined and cried she was a victim of racism at Howard university. The smoking gun exposed this fraud artist and she lost her case against the university. When Dolezal had her white identity she cried that black people discriminated against her. Talib Kweli is correct this cow is a racist and the enemy.

Im not completely agree with you..but you right about not to erase..it's irreversible.

 

[bankside]

This "trans-racial" idea only works on the assumptions that races are inherently different. That's not true, ruling out genetic markers like skin tone. All people are exactly the bloody same.

I think this woman, and many other are confusing race with culture, and the good news for them is, you don't need to change your race to participate in another culture. Just live and surround yourself with that culture.

That's the same with transgender too: it only works on the assumption that genders are inherently different. That's not true, ruling out X/Y chromosomes & penises. There too I'd say all people are the same.

However we'd say many people still confuse sex with gender. Fair enough.

But if you don't need to change your race to participate in another culture, and I totally agree, people still do it, as the surgical examples in this thread show. I think it is viewed as extreme and eccentric to have your features permanently altered to look like another ethnicity, even if it is within someone's rights to do it.

I also think you don't need to change your sex through surgery to participate in another gender. That might still be viewed as extreme, but for some reason it doesn't have the same air of eccentricity: people assume the gender is inherently tied up in the body.

 

[Kahaih]

http://time.com/91081/what-science-says-about-race-and-genetics/




Many learned scientists differ with your position.

Obviously you didn't read the whole article, but I'm not really suprised, so I'll spell it out for you. There are genetic differences among the races. The continuous process of evolution makes certain of that. Race is not something one can change at will.

I don't believe you read the word at the top of that page.

I wouldn't care if you weren't chastising someone for not reading it.

It was 4,300+ words of not much other than speculation. I don't recommend anyone read it, as it's a waste of time.

The word you obviously missed at the top of the page: OPINION

It's the ramblings of, and I quote, 'A Former New York Times Science Editor' posted in the Opinion section of the website.

Your 'witness' has no real credibility, here. He's a writer/editor – nothing more. Probably just 'spamming' his book(s). Hide your tinfoil.

 

[MoufOfKhaos]

Let's see.

I'm Cuban today, because that will probably increase my chances of fucking this guy that comes into my store every week.

...

Nope, my skin didn't lighten and my tolerance for cuban coffee didn't grow.

Guess trans-racial is only a thing for the stupid.

 

[mikey3000]

I don't believe you read the word at the top of that page.

I wouldn't care if you weren't chastising someone for not reading it.

It was 4,300+ words of not much other than speculation. I don't recommend anyone read it, as it's a waste of time.

The word you obviously missed at the top of the page: OPINION

It's the ramblings of, and I quote, 'A Former New York Times Science Editor' posted in the Opinion section of the website.

Your 'witness' has no real credibility, here. He's a writer/editor – nothing more. Probably just 'spamming' his book(s). Hide your tinfoil.

Of course it would be you to attack an Eton and Cambridge educated science writer with 30 years experience at the New York Times. Silly me. I'm betting you are just finishing up a better paper than his and no doubt will publish it shortly. So me wait for your paper before I can have an opinion on, well, practically any topic out there, because, well, you are the expert.

 

[IceColdLover]

Why would she want to put herself in the inevitable situation of being judged by black skin color and called all sorts of names and mistreated? Did she do this because she wanted to "be black" or fit in with other black individuals? She's beautiful, but I feel like she's stirring the pot a bit. Is she mentally ill or was this a set-minded decision? Even if she wanted to be completely "black", she'd still have Caucasoid features, unless she had a lot of facial surgery done, which is expensive and risky.