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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] Juliie 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Neurodivergence makes a lot of sense.

Back on reddit most of autism, adhd aspie memes etc subs felt way more friendly and generally better. Way nicer experience

Take into account ND people generally being more ... strict to moral rules (can't browse reddit without guilt anymore)

[–] samus12345 2 points 1 year ago

Take into account ND people generally being more … strict to moral rules

Didn't consider that, but it makes sense. Being moral is important to me, but also practicality - I will visit reddit for info if needed (always with ads blocked), but won't post or comment.

[–] Twilight 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gotta wonder why 21% of the people refused to answer whether they were aware of the fediverse before signing up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Perhaps something along the lines of: skip / I don't remember?

[–] Pregnenolone 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah I mean, that looks better than what I expect Reddit to be: 13-20

[–] R51 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Could someone please explain to me that white/not white chart? What is white and not white?

I swear I actually don't know, and I am kind of embarrassed to ask but I just want to know. Is it strictly skin color, like is there an RGBs value that if a person averages a darker saturation then they are not white, and above that bar they are white? Or is it an aggregate of ethnicities that fall into the category of "white"?

Seriously if anyone could help me understand here. I got into an argument with someone not long ago because I said white is not a race, and her friends were backing her up as well.

I just wanna understand.

[–] jaackf 6 points 1 year ago

I think usually ethnicity is a better way of identifying as that takes into account historical, cultural and ancestual similatities within people, rather than race which is mainly concerned with skin colour and physical differences. Race is seeminly a more outdated concept.

In this scenario I would assume White refers to 'of european / american decent'.

Though someone correct me if I'm off the mark there!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're right. White is not a race. Neither is black, brown or purple. People have different levels of melanin in their skin, and that's it. People come from different cultures, and have different norms / frames of reference. That's where diversity of opinion comes from.

To boil that down to a binary categorisation based on literal skin colour is reductionist to say the least. Some might be less generous.

[–] tobor 2 points 1 year ago

The explanation that made the most sense to me is that yes, there is no such thing as race, it's genetically insignificant. However as a historical construct, we still have to take it into account in order to dismantle things like systemic racism.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It is difficult and not that black and white (pun not intended). I would personally say that for external factors it is skin color. Like how other people perceive you. That's why the term 'white-passing' exists. But for internal factors it is different. Like, for example, I am a quarter black. But just like a lot of people who are a quarter black or anything, I look white. So to other people I am white because they can only see skin color, but I know that's not the whole truth because I know my family history. But I am still given privileges in society purely based on the fact that I look white that people with darker skin don't get. I have fully black friend and when we were in high school (didn't know each other back then yet) we both skipped school so much that we got in trouble with attendance laws in our country. We did the exact same thing, and got community service, but I, as a 'white' girl, got to spend it helping out a library, while he, a black young man, had to pick trash at the side of the road.

It is to some extent also influenced by ethnicity, more so in the past than now, like how Italians and the Irish weren't considered white when they immigrated to America by the people of English descent. But because of the history of colonialism and slavery by majority white countries over majority non-white countries, it has almost exclusively connotations to skin color now.

Of course, 'race', in the biological sense, doesn't actually exist in humans. We're all the same race, homo sapiens. But we still use the word race today as a shorthand because historically, when people didn't have as much knowledge about biology as we do now, people did actually think the different skin colors were different human races. So, biologically, neither white nor black nor Latino nor Asian nor whatever is an actual race, but socially, societally speaking, it is a useful shorthand for skin color because of difference in treatment, privilege, education, income, etc etc that comes with it from centuries of oppression, colonialism, slavery, exploitation and ('scientific') racism.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wikipedia's page on white people is a good primer for you to start learning: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_people

More on whiteness as a social construct. Although written from a Canadian standpoint, the info here is still broadly applicable to many Western societies. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/whiteness-is-a-racial-construct-its-time-to-take-it-apart/article32301637/

[–] R51 1 points 1 year ago

That wiki was an amazing read, and it was pretty funny seeing some of Aristotle's earlier shitposts. Too dark? You're an L. Too pasty? You are basically a woman. Somewhere in the middle? You are a gigachad.

Some relevant quotes I liked:

Contemporary anthropologists and other scientists, while recognizing the reality of biological variation between different human populations, regard the concept of a unified, distinguishable "White race" as a social construct with no scientific basis.

"White, black, and brown are abridged, abstracted versions of colonizer, slave, and colonized."

Irene Silverblatt

Blacks and indios were subject to tribute obligations and forbidden to bear arms, and black and indio women were forbidden to wear jewels, silk, or precious metals in early colonial Mexico and Peru.

Those pardos (people with dark skin) and mulattos (people of mixed African and European ancestry) with resources largely sought to evade these restrictions by passing as White.

A brief royal offer to buy the privileges of Whiteness for a substantial sum of money attracted fifteen applicants before pressure from White elites ended the practice.

Real life if is a simulation and we're inside a videogame