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When people are way too smug about their wrong answer.
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Leave it to a white person to think they just get to use words however they want regardless of their actual definitions. SMH
OP isn't ignorant because they're white, they're ignorant because of the impact of their social economic class on their education, life experience, and world view.
Your comment opening with:
"Leave it to a white person to..." Is blatant racism.
Thats a good explanation. I'm saving that for future use. It seems easier to empathise with these people when you understand that they're a product of their environment and as much victims of the system as anybody else.
Yeah but it's the cool kind of racism that's allowed so it's okay!
If I can be racist against my very own (according to the 23 and me dealy i got for Christmas 4 years ago) kind, than you know what? Fine I'll take that. White people, especially Americans who feel the need to preamble that with some other European nation like it was an additional qualifying ethnicity, suck. I dislike them. It's like, ooh look at me I'm extra white. Fuck that. They are attention seeking children and a net negative for society.
The abscence of formal centralized definitions is kinda the bread and butter of the english language. All dictionaries are trying to describe how people use words, not what they mean.
It's not amorphous enough fit it to ever be ok for a white+ American girl to just say she's Latin because she feels like that's just a state of mind. Language does not work like that.
"Leave it to [insert race]" is not exactly taking the high road here.
I'm pretty sure that as a white person I'm aloud to call out a type of behavior that has become all to common in white people.
You're allowed to do a lot of things. What I'm really getting at is what kind of person it makes you.
I'm the kind of person who is sick of being lumped in with people who look like me. White people are not my people just because we have similar pigmentation but I'm certainly not going around claiming to be some other ethnicity because i think it's a state of mind. I might have a chip on my shoulder. I was raised by a very active civil rights activist and this shit makes me sick.
First,
But then,
You're very confused.
I believe you believe that
You know latinx was coined by actually queer/NB latinx people, right? It's not just a white people thing.
Right, but it is not and has not been used to describe queer white people. The OOP describes herself as Irish American who identified as Latinx because she "loves hard", and that's not how anything works.