Transracial' man born white feels like he is Filipino
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Wouldn’t surprise me if that’s what comes next. I’m sure there’s some weirdos out there that want to identify themselves as a dog or cat etc. They will probably insist on there legal right to walk round on all fours in work etc and drink out of a bowl in the corner.
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There was the goat guy and to be fair to him, he seemed pretty dedicated as well as creative
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Ever heard of "furries"????
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Day of the rope, when?
I identify myself as a serial killer and i've just moved into your area.
People who identify as serial killers - problematic. People who identify themselves as serial killers - quickly dealt with.
For reference, I identify as a Grammar Nazi.
(Which I suppose Zethor will use as evidence that Nazism is Right Wing. *sigh* )
EDIT: (and yes, it would be a Semantics Nazi but that is not a thing).
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It does sort of go against their cause. By trying to claim you are ethnically a different race, the community may find it mocking or offending and therefore isolate you...
Damn this world is getting more and more crazy
No, but the internet allows quick spreading of the word that somewhere, someone is doing something stupid.
There might be a few billion people but you don't get to see it in perspective, you just get weirdos shoved in your face because normal people are not interesting. It can feel like something is happening when actually it's as marginal a thing as ever.
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This stuff is probably promoted more by people posting threads and articles like this which hold a tone of 'I can't believe this is actually a thing now', rather than the movement itself and therefore make it more common place, while complaining that it is becoming common place.
Some people may have never had the thought cross their mind until hearing about it in this thread. Skip forward 20 years and Chris Wilson is calling himself an ethno-English Syrian.
Some people may have never had the thought cross their mind until hearing about it in this thread. Skip forward 20 years and Chris Wilson is calling himself an ethno-English Syrian.
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So how long before we can have a dolphinaplasty?
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Hang on, how is this different to all the inner city white guys adopting black culture? Isn't he just saying that he feels a kinship towards the Philipino culture and as such has decided to adopt it? I could move to India, convert to Buddhism, start eating the food, wearing the clothes, marry an Indian girl, renounce my citizenship and eventually stop thinking of myself as British, that's no different to this surely? Why shove the trans---ism label on it, he should just get on with being who he wants to be and stop trying to wrap a trendy label around what is effectively just a lifestyle choice.
He's making the error of confusing race and culture.
Not sure if you've both read my posts or not yet, but there are sections of US society - in particular Academic and Social Media, where that confusion is not only not your choice, but ideologically promoted. People have been physically attacked for "Cultural Appropriation" because their choices don't line up with approved views of what race is allowed what culture. It's an insane environment and I use that word accurately. I don't think he's trying to be trendy. I think he's trying to find a way to exist in such an environment in a way that will get them to recognize his choices as legitimate. In the asylum, the only language understood is that of lunatics.