The essential nature of racial identity plays an important role in lots of indigenous movements.
what essential idendity? indigenous movements are not seperate from their material and cultural reality, nor are there essential racial differences in human phyisiology or psychology, race is always socially constructed
That veers awfully close to the lib idea that “colorblindness” is something desirable.
insane non-sequitur, and literally not an argument just saying you associate x with y
You see how this is a Eurocentric viewpoint, right? A lot of very passionate and very revolutionary PoC, at least ones I've talked to, don't subscribe to this idea that race is all just a giant hoax that doesn't really mean anything. Some AIM people I've talked to very strongly hold that being indigenous, especially their unique tribal history, is part of who they are and what makes them who they are. If you told them they were being fooled by a "social construct" they'd be really offended.
And, even if it is a social construct, so what? Consent is a social construct. Gender is a social construct. Socialism is a social construct. Everything's a social construct! Being a construct doesn't make something not real or not important.
Like, I get how these concepts can be twisted by white supremacists. I do. It's obvious how easily they can take this sort of rhetoric and turn it into justifying white "purity" and other bullshit. But racial identity is fucking important to non-white people and saying that they just need to get over it because "we're all humans" is a hell of a white take.
what essential idendity? indigenous movements are not seperate from their material and cultural reality, nor are there essential racial differences in human phyisiology or psychology, race is always socially constructed
insane non-sequitur, and literally not an argument just saying you associate x with y
You see how this is a Eurocentric viewpoint, right? A lot of very passionate and very revolutionary PoC, at least ones I've talked to, don't subscribe to this idea that race is all just a giant hoax that doesn't really mean anything. Some AIM people I've talked to very strongly hold that being indigenous, especially their unique tribal history, is part of who they are and what makes them who they are. If you told them they were being fooled by a "social construct" they'd be really offended.
And, even if it is a social construct, so what? Consent is a social construct. Gender is a social construct. Socialism is a social construct. Everything's a social construct! Being a construct doesn't make something not real or not important.
Like, I get how these concepts can be twisted by white supremacists. I do. It's obvious how easily they can take this sort of rhetoric and turn it into justifying white "purity" and other bullshit. But racial identity is fucking important to non-white people and saying that they just need to get over it because "we're all humans" is a hell of a white take.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr8ljRgcJNM