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Bingo, Im white and Mexican born. I can dress up in traditional Mexican stuff and no one gives a crap. If I tried to be a rastafarian, whose faith is focused on the return of African descended people back to Africa, itvwould be wrong.

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Exactly, no Scottish person is getting bent out of shape if Im wearing tartan plaid shirts but dressing up and pretending to be Rastafarian would be inappropriate as Im white.

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Selection bias

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This gets to the question of what racial identity is and I would argue that someone who isn’t of recent African ancestry, who was not raised by people who have recent African ancestry, who then pretends to not just have recent African ancestry but then claims that their family aren’t the people who raised them (because they are white) is very clearly not stable.

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A new Stonetoss huh

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I know a bunch but they are in (sub)cultures that either get popularized and have very specific dictates for membership. The clearest example of this are how Rastas feel about non-black people appropriating the imagery of their faith whoch is dedicated to bringing the African diaspora back to Africa.

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I'm not familiar, can you explain for the class?

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It invalidates it quite a bit. Anything advertising Tim Pool to kids should never be validated.

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Stonetoss is a comic writer who is also just straight up a nazi, and makes a lot of pretty bad comics.

I don't think the guy who made this comic is on his level but I'm only judging off this single one.

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So you're saying that this guy is a nazi and his comics are bad, to some noteworthy degree.

Any comment on his actual point here?

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Al Quaeda? Never met the guy.

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I think that you would rather eat your own foot than address a point directly.

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I have legitimately no idea what you're actually trying to say.

I was just replying to the user explaining who stonetoss was, I even said in my reply I don't think this guy is like him.

Or are you trying to pretend stonetoss isn't a nazi? Idk what to tell you there lil guy.

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There's things like native American sports mascots which are but some Native tribes say it's ok, but they also don't speak for every native American.

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They aren't the same person as the original comment, but no their words did not say they were a nazi, they only said this post wasn't as bad as some noteworthy Nazi that someone else brought up. I wouldn't call that a complement, but they answered your first question directly. Then you manipulated their words into an demanding question and they have you word vomit back.

Idk who these writers are, but I assume the aggressive response got the irrelevant answer

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And also the representation of that culture. An ignorant attempt at mocking a culture can be offensive even if the intent is purely comic or positive.

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Boomer humor

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Yeah this is “bestof” on the shit hole site material. But it’s legitimately excellent

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This reminds me of a comic, which obviously should be taken playfully with a pinch of salt:

Two Italian men are joined by a visitor trying to ask a question in Italian. "Ah, they're trying to speak Italian!" and so they turn to the visitor and welcome them in Italian.
Two German men are joined by a visitor trying to ask a question in German. "Ah, they're trying to speak German!" and so they turn to the visitor and welcome them in English.
Two Parisian men are joined by a visitor trying to ask a question in French. "Ah, they're trying to speak French!" and so they turn away and ignore them.

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Incredibly generally: gender is the expression of gender identity and is a social construct while gender identity seems to be largely influenced by biological factors. Sex is the biological differentiation, and while the delineation between the sexes is culturally defined (if someone has xxy sex chromosomes, high testosterone, a penis, and a vagina it's a cultural decision if we say they're male, female or intersex), it's a classification based much more on observable factors.

Race and ethnicity are more akin to sex than to gender identity, which would be better compared to cultural identity.
What distinguishes races is a social construct, but within a context racial classifications are relatively consistent. Racial markers that mean nothing in the US might be quite significant in Rawanda.
Similarly ethnicity, being a blend of race, language, culture and heritage is socially constructed but relatively objective within a context.
Culture on the other hand is, like gender identity, more to do with subjective feelings, opinions, and choices on the part of the individual, with the distinctions between them being cultural.

The woman in question mislead people about her race and ethnicity by misidentifying her relatives and heritage. Her cultural affiliation is harder to dispute, although being a chapter president for the NAACP shows at least a degree of acceptance by the African American culture in the area.