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I hate that people mistake "acknowledging the inherently oppressive pseudoscience of race" with "color-blindness"

Me talking about how race is fake isn't me being colorblind. I talk about how race is fake, because I, as a POC, want to be liberated from systematic racism
"Oh but it'll take 1000 generations to get rid of the idea of race, it'll never happen in our lifetime, so why even try?" then you're basically saying it'll take 1000 generations to liberate ourselves from systematic racism and that we shouldn't even try

Because... the concepts go hand in hand. You can't dismantle racism without dismantling race.

@darlingofinana The concept of race is pretty much dead in biology and in Europe the only people using the word "race" for humans are either racists or people adopting the US world view.

@AimeeMaroux Here in the US it's still sadly the basis for liberation movements because racial separatism is seen as the default form of leftist liberation.

And like, as an incredibly mixed person, it frustrates me because I don't feel liberated by separatist nationalism
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@darlingofinana I just mention it because the concept of race was obviously all over Europe 100 years ago.

But not gonna lie, I always get whiplash when I see progressive people use the word "race". Race is not even a useful concept in zoology. It's time to let it go.