Question for Leftists #1: Is a Biracial Person Oppressed, or an Oppressor?

[Ponderer_8000]

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This question pertains to someone who's half White and half any minority race. Like Black, for example.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

"""Question for leftists""" 😆, yes okay, that's another chapter of the LETS FILTER OUT THE WINGS, and a brutal one, subtlety suffers. I don't mind, lets... Ponder then lol

I don't know why you're insisting, not you personally, with your races, race is homo sapiens sapiens, hello? Can somebody hear me? Or do you, now I'm talking to you personally, want be another candidate at challenging the consensus on this topic? Your own Academies of Sciences, in US, renounced the term.

So what is your Biracial then, a cat and a human? A furry then you mean? I don't think furries are oppressors, but they're most probably bullied yes.

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[Ponderer_8000]

Oh, i meant biracial human. I should have specified, but i was picturing a half Black/half White person. Also, this is not an opinion that I hold myself (I personally have an issue with the whole oppressed/oppressor dynamic). No, this an opinion that I've heard expressed oftentimes by Left-leaning people. I am challenging this argument because it seems overtly simplistic and cartoony. Yes, I do believe that racism exists still. But I don't get the argument that all Blacks are one monolith and all Whites are all one monolith. For example, some blacks (like myself) have been fortunate to not have suffered much from racism like others have. Likewise, not all Whites I've met are evil. So i don't get the claim that everyone in one racial group have the same experiences and behaviors. Anyway, this question was to poke a hole in this argument. Basically, I wanted know: if the argument is that if Whites are predetermined to think/act a certain way and thus they are evil, and all Blacks are innocent, then 1) would a White person who has half Black blood still be predetermined to think a certain way and 2) would such an individual be considered good or evil?

[Ponderer_8000]

I'm not biracial myself. I'm asking out of curiosity, basically.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

That's interesting, I expected political trolling, but it's not. I'm sorry then, its just that I'm getting used to the trolling game here 😆

Okay, you're telling me that life hasn't been bad to you, in your circles, as a black guy, which I won't contradict, it's your experience and completely expected, logically, not everyone is gonna fall in a shitty environment, given the diversity of cultures you might live in.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Also, I'm interested in how you define the word race here, I would appreciate you elaborate on this

[MisterWack]

Neither.
Though I will say the darker the skin tone, the more likely someone will racially profile them in a negative light. We’ve seen footage during Covid19 Pandemic of white people slapping, punching, pushing Asian Americans around. Even in town, there was empty lines to the Chinese Restaurant like they somehow flew to China just to bring it back here…. There is racism in this country, not to say our country is racist. There are a minority of assholes who are bigoted, racist, sexist, and awful pieces of human trash.

Biracial people just like all people are people, deserve to be treated with dignity & respect as we’d give to anyone else until proven otherwise in individual judgement of character.

[DrPepper12]

Does the person pass as black or white?
Where do they live?
What are socioeconomic circumstances?

The whole oppressor oppressed theories are applicable to institutional and structural racism and less , if at all, applicable on the individual level due to too many variables.

[Telekinetic-Potato]

A cogent reaponse

[DrPepper12]

TY @Telekinetic-Potato. Like I said. They couldn't handle NYC. It would destroy their fragile eggshell minds

[Telekinetic-Potato]

Lol I think a lot of people on this site just need to go outside more.

[NaultD]

The better question is material conditions.

[andreasderjuengere]

It's: ''Half of Both'' :D

[Avicenna]

that is a very good question...

[BarryLiverstone]

We are oppressed

[avery58]

You're biracial?

[Ponderer_8000]

@avery58 Nope. Just straight Black. I'm asking out of curiosity.

[BarryLiverstone]

Yes I’m biracial

[Ponderer_8000]

You are? Does my question make you feel uncomfortable and singled out? Because that wasn't my intent.

[BarryLiverstone]

I don’t feel uncomfortable

[Anonymous]

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