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Forums - Politics Discussion - Delaware students can now choose their own race (Yes, RACE!) under new regulations.

newwil7l on 17 February 2018

Good.

There are no such thing as pure races anways. It is time to scrap labels.



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Cobretti2 on 17 February 2018

I am confused isn't this normal already lol?

Here is Aus all our forms have race/nationality on them, so not sure what the big issue is here?



 

 

Medisti on 17 February 2018
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

Medisti said: 

I would suggest that's closer to fact than opinion. I'm of the opinion that gender identity is nonsense because it seems more like a simpler escape from the gender roles of society. I'm not a man who's "girly"; I'm a woman, so it's okay for me to be like this. Even though it's okay to be like that regardless of gender. Gender traits need to go.

Well I am a little bit confused so let me ask you two questions. What is gender identity in this context? Wouldn't people who focus on gender identity mostly be transgender people? I don't think there's a lot of people who aren't transgender who say they identify as another gender. And in that case I don't mind transgender people identifying as another gender because the basis for that is an actual mental condition. 

My second question is, why would you think that gender identity is nonsense that is a simple escape from gender roles ... but then say that gender traits need to go? Gender traits are what determine gender roles and if you think the traits are bullshit you shouldn't really care about what gender someone identifies as in the first place because those roles are arbitrary anyways, right? Unless you're saying that it's all such bullshit we should just get rid of all gender traits and stop entertaining the idea of Gender?

My opinion is that Gender has almost always been used as an easy way of identifying someone's sex without using the word "what is your sex". I guess sex is the scientific term whereas Gender is a social term but people should just list their actual gender unless they are transgender. 

Gender and sex were once interchangeable until it became politicized. Transgenderism is a mental illusion. There's no such thing. You're either male or female, and it's as easy as looking at your chromosomes. The real problem is that society puts labels on people, so they feel pressured into "changing" to fit into the label that they feel suits them. Really, people should be allowed to be who they are without having to justify or qualify it. Sadly, that's not the world we live in.



CosmicSex on 17 February 2018

You guys are stupid. My best friend growing up was half black and half white. He was often expected to pick one. Who better than him to identify himself. This law is valid. Stop crying like someone is trying to hurt you.



JWeinCom on 17 February 2018
Cobretti2 said:
I am confused isn't this normal already lol?

Here is Aus all our forms have race/nationality on them, so not sure what the big issue is here?

Actually, in America, it's traditional to have a draft to determine race...

 

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Aeolus451 on 17 February 2018
CosmicSex said:
You guys are stupid. My best friend growing up was half black and half white. He was often expected to pick one. Who better than him to identify himself. This law is valid. Stop crying like someone is trying to hurt you.

What if he identified as a 15,000 year old asexual dragon?



CosmicSex on 17 February 2018
Aeolus451 said:
CosmicSex said:
You guys are stupid. My best friend growing up was half black and half white. He was often expected to pick one. Who better than him to identify himself. This law is valid. Stop crying like someone is trying to hurt you.

What if he identified as a 15,000 year old asexual dragon?

That doesn't even make sense. You guys are afraid of everything.



JWeinCom on 17 February 2018
Aeolus451 said:
CosmicSex said:
You guys are stupid. My best friend growing up was half black and half white. He was often expected to pick one. Who better than him to identify himself. This law is valid. Stop crying like someone is trying to hurt you.

What if he identified as a 15,000 year old asexual dragon?

Then I'm guessing the school would refuse as they are able to according to the regulations.



Aeolus451 on 17 February 2018
CosmicSex said:
Aeolus451 said:

What if he identified as a 15,000 year old asexual dragon?

That doesn't even make sense. You guys are afraid of everything.

It makes sense considering that there's people who identify as dragons and 6 year olds (even though he was actually forty something).  This isn't about friends like yours but more about Rachel Dolezal's.

JWeinCom said:
Aeolus451 said:

What if he identified as a 15,000 year old asexual dragon?

Then I'm guessing the school would refuse as they are able to according to the regulations.

That's a possibility. They also could allow it.



forest-spirit on 17 February 2018

Meh, don't see any reason to get up in arms. The system of categorising people as asian, black, hispanic, etc. is quite dumb anyway and "race" is pretty much used as a synonym for "skin colour".