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[–] [email protected] 63 points 5 months ago (3 children)

You can have black ancestry and appear not-black, so this really doesn't support her argument at all.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 5 months ago

She wouldn't understand a complexity like that.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

She seems like the type that would accuse such people of faking it to get special treatment, because they don't look "black" enough. The right-wing media in Australia were pushing that line for a while (and probably still are).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

In such a case, is such a person black?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Now that is a complicated question. There is a "one drop" narrative that extreme supremacists have... but someone who doesn't look black claiming blackness would definitely get a side eye from a chunk of the black community where even lighter skinned black folks are made aware of the privileges of shade and tone...

So probably both yes and no or the principle of Mu depending on circumstance?

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

Does it matter?

The real answer is it depends on what box they check when they fill out forms. Presuming they don't check the "choose not to answer" box. Then there's simply no way of knowing.