New Copy Pasta Just Dropped

New copy pasta just dropped

PLEASE look at what someone dm’d me on Twitter

as some1 who is "white passing" this is bs erasure is not a privilege, being mistaken 4 ur oppressors and being pitted against ur own community is not a privilege not 2 mention racism is not only colourism there's also featurism ect [sry if bad spelling i haven't seen that word written down b4] p much none of us that r considered "white passing" even look fully white bc most of us still look different bc of being mixed even if it's not our skin colour that looks different and those of us who do still belong in our community [speaking as some1 considered white passing but my hair and body shape r different bc im mixed]

some1 acting like us saying we're mixed is asking 4 special treatment

just 2 b clear the problem isn't ppl not guessing our race right it's ppl insisting that they know what race we r better than we do even when we tell them that we're mixed and then being racist even when they do acknowledge it

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fuck this im having a bad day bc of ppl being weird abt me being mixed w/ black and mixed w/ white so im just making this a masterpost of all the kinda bs i deal w/ bc so many ppl don't seem 2 believe me when i say me and others like me go thru this shit, gonna reblog this w/ any new shit i find

apparently they r comparing us 2 coffee now

weird race fetish bs

weird eugenics bs

in case u thought it was only 4 coffee cups

yeh as some1 who is ""white passing"" [don't like the term 4 in it's current use 4 so many reasons] ppl just always assume im white and then when i tell them i'm not they try 2 tell me that me being mixed w/ black "doesn't count" or w/e bc it wasn't 1 of my parents who's black it's my grandma but like,,,

1] it still makes me not 100% white

2] fuk u if there was a literal racial slur made 4 ppl who r "a quarter black" like me then i don't think u then get 2 turn around and call me white and say that my black side doesn't count [not putting the slur here bc i don't trust like that but if u know u know]

3] my mother despite being technically born in the uk was raised entirely in zimbabwe and doesn't rly consider herself english

4] i've experienced racism on multiple occasions despite what so many ppl like 2 think, if im black enough 2 experience racism u don't get 2 tell me im not black enough 2 call myself mixed

5] im not even fully white passable [which i would still b able 2 call myself mixed if i was i just find it weird how ppl act like i am fully white passable] like,,, my hair and body r different bc im mixed pale skin isn't the same thing as being able 2 pass as white and it's not like ppl don't notice those things abt me

sry if i got angry in the reblog im just glad some1 else is talking abt this bc it rly sucks bc it's not just white ppl who do this [which is bad enough already] but u even get monoracial poc doing this as a way of trying 2 pit the wider poc community against mixed ppl and it sucks

This isn’t like, specifically a fandom or media thing, but I’m kind of tired of the way people discuss (or often don’t discuss) multi-racial or multi-ethnic identities. Mixed people are literally so diverse and no two of us are going to have the exact same experiences. I remember once during class (I don’t remember what the exact topic or whatever was, but I think it was a writing class) we were discussing an article written about a mixed-race woman (I believe white/black) and everyone was just repeatedly referring to her as a black woman. And I didn’t say anything at the time because I was uncomfortable and I’m bad at speaking up for things that make me uncomfortable. But now I wish I had. Because maybe she thought of herself as a black woman, but none of us knew whether or not she did.

And like. I’m half-black, half-white, and I would be extremely uncomfortable if someone referred to me as a black woman. Because 1) I don’t look black. Straight-up, if you just looked at my face you would never assume I was black or part-black. I know because many people have guessed or assumed my race and they have never gotten it right. I am Ambiguously Brown. 2) I was raised by my mom, who’s white, and there are a lot of gaps in my knowledge of African-American history and culture (part of this is also a failure on the part of the American education system but what else is new). One of my friends and I (also a multi-racial woman, though not the same as me) used to joke that we were basic half-white bitches. No I would not be comfortable if someone who wasn’t a close friend, or if someone who wasn’t mixed, tried to do this with me. 3) Even if the first two weren’t true, I’m not black. I’m part black, and all aspects of my race are important to me, not just the ones that are most “obvious” to other people.

And that’s part of my biggest problem like this - people making assumptions about other mixed people’s experience with their identity. The first one that comes to mind is Keanu Reeves. I’ve definitely seen people make jokes about him being a popular unproblematic internet white guy - but he’s not white. He’s part white, part Chinese, part Hawaiian (his name is literally Hawaiian). And I can feel people rolling their eyes that it doesn’t matter or he still has privilege, so it doesn’t “count”. And I won’t deny that he may have privilege because of his appearance, but it is not your place to say that other people’s identity doesn’t count. You don’t live in other people’s brains, and you don’t know how he relates to his identity. You don’t know his experience. You don’t know how it’s affected him - or how assumptions like that affect him. This also goes for people on the opposite end of the spectrum, like my high school friend “Dimitri”, who was part black, part Native, and people typically assumed he was black. I wish now that we’d talked about this together - I don’t know how it affected him, but I do know how other people’s assumptions can affect you.

ppl rly do like 2 say that every disabled character in a queer relationship is child coded huh?

hey so since i just remembered that july is disability pride month i figured i'd go off since no1 can do shit, so let's unpack this post and y this bs of ppl saying every disabled character [especially those in queer relationships] is "child coded" pisses me off so much so i wanna start by saying that the term "child coded" does hav it's place, like w/ the whole 1000 year old dragon loli bs where the character is drawn exactly like how the artist draws kid characters, possibly also the characters even straight up calling them a loli or the character acting like an actual child or being treated like an actual child and them being a 1000 year old dragon is just an excuse 4 the piece of media they r in 2 put them in sexual situations [insert way 2 many anime as reference here] [dragon maid being 1 of them] or the other type of this trope where a character is literally stated 2 meant 2 appear like a child but is an adult and is still put in sexual/adult romance situations even tho it's stated they r meant 2 look like a child and it's clear that that's something the txt is playing into [huni from oran high school host club being a good example] [according 2 the wiki last time i checked it says that it was literally stated in the manga that he's meant 2 look 8 but he works at a host club and the story clearly plays into that given that his nickname is "the boy lolita", at least in the anime]

my problem is that some ppl want 2 act like disabled coding and child coding is the same thing and say that every disabled character is "child coded" and then from there say that they shouldn't b in relationships and ppl who use the term child coded 4 every disabled character seem 2 b even more likely 2 do so when the character is also in a queer relationship or when the fandom ships them in a queer relationship or has a queer headcanon 4 them

the most common type of misuse i've seen of this term tho is when ppl r shipping a character in a queer relationship and then some1 who is obviously made uncomfortable by queer stuff tries 2 say that the ship is a pedo ship by saying that they think 1 of the characters is child coded and this is a problem that has multiple layers bc w/ how it's being misused in this way it shows the following abt the person misusing it;

1] they c disabled ppl as children [especially feminine presenting and queer disabled ppl]

2] they don't want disabled ppl 2 b in relationships

3] they c all relationships w/ a disabled person as pedo shit

4] they don't want queer ppl in relationships

5] they c all queer relationships as pedo shit and so they look 4 any excuse 2 call it pedo shit even tho at least 90% of the time it's literally not

ppl rly do like 2 say that every disabled character in a queer relationship is child coded huh?

gender is a confusing game of "guess who" and im losing