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No ColinC May 2023 #1
Did you mean multigraincracker May 2023 #2
Well she said she was a black woman trapped in the body of a white woman... Progressive Lawyer May 2023 #3
A person's brain does not have race wired into it LostOne4Ever May 2023 #4
Don't know about better but certainly differently today. JanMichael May 2023 #5
interesting I had a debate with treestar May 2023 #6
 

Progressive Lawyer

(617 posts)
3. Well she said she was a black woman trapped in the body of a white woman...
Sat May 20, 2023, 10:14 PM
May 2023

...so perhaps bigotry based on gender and race.

LostOne4Ever

(9,767 posts)
4. A person's brain does not have race wired into it
Sat May 20, 2023, 10:39 PM
May 2023

Unlike gender identity.

They are NOT the same.

JanMichael

(25,725 posts)
5. Don't know about better but certainly differently today.
Sat May 20, 2023, 10:53 PM
May 2023

How so I am not certain but I imagine the hostility would be dampered a bit.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
6. interesting I had a debate with
Sat May 20, 2023, 11:14 PM
May 2023

someone about how people can identify as black as they choose - President Obama, half white and Meghan Markle, even more white, who could pass. They ID'd as black and that was the end of it.

Hypocritical to say Dolezal cannot ID as she wants to.



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