(June 12, 2015 at 3:59 pm)KUSA Wrote:(June 12, 2015 at 3:56 pm)Dystopia Wrote: It's irrelevant, it's just how society perceives you and your physical features + culture (african one)
Why doesn't this apply to other groups then?
It's terrible that we are only what society perceives us as being.
However terrible it may be, it is completely relevant to who the KKK types are likely to want to lynch, and who gets discriminated against.
If you do not appear to be black to someone who is bigoted against black people, then the bigot will not discriminate against you on that basis. How you feel or perceive yourself to be is completely irrelevant to whether others will discriminate against you. It is their perceptions that matter for that.
In the case of the subject of this thread, it would appear that the woman looked very white growing up, and is unlikely to have been discriminated against for being black as a child. If that is true, then if she says that she suffered such discrimination as a child, she is either a liar or delusional. And one may legitimately criticize her for that.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
