(July 24, 2020 at 1:57 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Our recent fragility may be the start of racial dysphoria (assuming that it doesn't already exist...). The wait could get real short real quick.
If we took the complaints of the complex to be genuine (not necessarily true, but genuinely felt, at least) then they fear that they are being compelled to race shame, and that their children will be indoctrinated to race shame. A person sympathetic to these narratives will immediately see a valid comparison between race and gender with regards to dysphoria.
Leaning in, we can say, yes, if society is denying you pride and compelling you to shame it would be in the process of manufacturing race dysphoria... and that would be bad. If we must compare, it only reaffirms the statements that it might be invoked as a screen against.
I dunno. I think the dysphoria transgender people feel goes deeper than the dysphoria racial minorities feel from racism. Admittedly, this is coming from a white person, but I am a white transgender person and a lot of that privilege, a lot of that social acceptability I once had from being (as far as anyone could tell) a regular old straight, white, cis male, I had to throw that away to feel comfortable in my body. I had to trade social acceptability for personal comfort. It doesn't feel like that's something that would really happen under the scenario you described.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama