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[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 months ago (1 children)

...implying that she believes in Blood Quantum as well. Yikes.

Trans people, PoC... she was having a go at disabled people in her last book as well. I think maybe trolling has an addictive component and they have to reach further and further to get the same adrenaline hit.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What's Blood Quantum? Also, that would've been a sick name for 007 movie.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago

Blood quantum laws were originally laws made by colonizers in the US deciding who got to be Indigenous based on the percentage of "Indian blood" they have - colonial era Australia did the same thing to Aboriginal people. Slavery-era classifications like "octaroon" are another example.

I was using it more broadly here to mean the essentialist belief that ethnicity is dna-based.

Blood Quantum is also a horror movie :-)