Itâs funny you say that, because it doesnât make you disabled, but it does make you affected by ableism. Donât believe me? Ask the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
My ex being injured by racists who thought he was mixed Chinese does not make him Chinese. Thatâs not at all within the text of this post so itâs a weird thing to argue. But it does make him affected by sinophobia, because it was the hatred of China and Chinese people that caused this problem. Bigotry comes from the bigot, not from the identity. Again, donât believe me? Ask the US DOJ.
Read that again. Actual- or perceived- protected demographic. By definition, my ex experienced several anti-Asian hate crimes. So did my friend who turned out to not be Native. So did I when people more commonly mistook me for latina. That is the actual federal wording.
Iâm not hiding behind my race or the argument of intersectionality. I am saying that you, a white person, are attempting to incorrectly explain how oppression works to me, a black person, who is using the actual definitions of what these words mean and how they are treated within political theory off of social media, because you are using a dramatically incorrect and incomplete view of the theory youâre trying to explain.
This is like. Really basic black theory knowledge. Really basic sociology theory. Even really basic feminist theory. If you are in the US, this is very literally how it works and how itâs defined. This is an intersectional conversation where thinga donât quite fit into neatly sorted boxes.
Sikhs have long held an acknowledgement that some of the shit they go through is not even âsupposedâ to be directed at them. And a lot of Muslims have acknowledged the same, whether itâs in a wiki article or not.
Itâs also weird that youâre so resistant to acknowledging that we have so much more in common than we donât, and that things arenât always so clear cut and easy to label. Someone experiencing oppression thatâs not âfor themâ does not make them incapable of enacting that same oppression onto someone else, someone whose identity more fits the concept, or even someone just like them as a precautionary. Hell, someone experiencing oppression that DOES fit the label doesnât even mean they canât enact it on others- or did you miss that there are cis women on the Supreme Court that gleefully voted away reproductive rights? Did you miss the black politicians who happily buddy up to racists if that means theyâll get elected again? Did you forget that people like Kanye West and Caitlyn Jenner exist?
Learn to share. Learn to see yourself in your fellow human being. You might be surprised what you find there.