#asterins rants

hey guys!! i feel like there ABSOLUTELY needs to be a more nuanced discussion within race changing, because you all are either extremely pro race changing (and dismiss every other poc who feel uncomfortable with it), or extremely anti race changing (who call people names, disregard the fact that there’s infinite realities and we are only awareness, and etc) or people who just want to avoid the race changing topic all together and be like “can we get back to talking about our drs” or “we left this in 2020 can we move on” which is SO.. insensitive 😭 poc can talk about anything they feel uncomfortable about without feeling like they’re being dismissed or feel like they’re creating “problems” within the shifting community.

as stated, i am a south asian trans man, so ofcourse, i have can have my two cents in this, so if you think im “fighting” anyone, or trying to pick “sides”, i am not! im not trying to argue with anyone here, i dont CARE what you think about race changing or what your opinion is on it… this post is just more nuanced so if that bothers you, i suggest you scroll now!

so yes, it IS true that theres infinite realities, and that we are only awareness, and that there’s 100% NO original reality and technically morals don’t “exist” from a stand point, BUT, that doesnt mean morals all TOGETHER don’t matter, each reality has different morals. currently, we are aware of THIS REALITY. so we are operating from THIS REALITIES MORALS. humans have a moral compass, and in this reality, we have been thought that rcta is bad (i am not calling race changing rcta, before you pro race changers jump me and call me the shifting police😭) so shifters see race changing, and associate it with that because we are, basically operating from this realities morals. ESPECIALLY poc can be uncomfortable with it, as a south asian, i’ve been made fun of for my culture, my parents had their accents mocked every time they talked, i’ve had been called that i “smell bad” just because of south asian stereotypes — even though south asians literally invented bathing. but ok. so i UNDERSTAND why poc WOULD find race changing uncomfortable, especially if it’s a WHITE person changing their race to asian in their dr, without knowing what poc go through ON A DAILY BASIS. especially if you’re doing it out of fetishization (like ex: you’re shifting to be korean in a kpop dr because you believe that you CANNOT be non east asian and be in the kpop industry, that is a form of internalized racism, because you can just script is normal for your race / ethnicity to be in the kpop industry. you technically don’t HAVE TO BE KOREAN). this is NOT me calling race changing bad in general (and i swear if people misread this post, im going to throw my phone across my room), this is me saying why poc MAY be uncomfortable with it.

+ just because, race changing doesn’t NECESSARILY equal being racist (and it doesnt) that doesn’t mean you HAVE TO BE OKAY WITH IT, and everyone has to agree with you on the topic, because clearly, we need nuance. YOU can choose what’s moral and what’s not, so if you feel uncomfortable with race changing, you’re ABSOLUTELY free to express that discomfort, and if you are pro race changing, it’s your job to LISTEN to them and not be passive aggressive to them and talk about how “it’s okay” or “this is a limiting beliefs” or “we are limitless” because we all know that..?? 😭 you’re not doing anything by saying that. you just look like a jerk silencing pocs voices (or anyone really who’s uncomfortable with race changing)

and this is an example for me: i HATE people who shift to participate in incest, why? because this is MY reality and i CHOOSE MY MORALS. i have a RIGHT to express my morals too, because we are OPERATING from a reality where, incest is CLEARLY wrong even IF they’re shifting to a reality where it’s “okay”, and no, i don’t CARE what you do in your dr, but you also cannot expect positive reactions with that. but, this isn’t the topic here today!!!

so, if a poc finds race changing uncomfortable, you do NOT make extra posts bothering them saying that them being uncomfortable with it is “nonsense”, even if you’re a poc who’s okay with it, not EVERY poc is, and if it genuinely bothers you just BLOCK them and move on.

this is not me shitting on race changers, i actually don’t care about race changing, however i may find it a BIT odd if a white person changes their race to be asian in their dr and doesn’t script out racism because they want to “experience” racism, but who am i to tell people what they can’t and can do, i’m just a random tumblr blogger lol. but opinions are free, the internet will always be the internet, so you can’t really change peoples minds, but also you’re free to YOUR own opinions, so if people are being disrespectful, you can just block

i hope i didn’t offend anyone with this post… i am NOT pro race changing nor am i anti changing, im more in the middle ground, i don’t know how to feel about it😭 my only problem is pro race changers thinking that only THEIR opinion matters (even anti race changers do this, but i’ve PERSONALLYYYY seen more pro race changers do this)

and if a pro race changer comes in my comments, ignoring all the nuance to this post because they didn’t read, then well idk what to tell you anymore dude 💀 you might be the problem here, because this is NOT me picking sides, i am just saying that we all need to respect each others opinions a bit more, ESPECIALLY the fact we are a very small, tight knit community. this post was just, stating reasons why a poc MAY be uncomfortable with race changing, not a jab at pro race changers / race changers in general.

guys, please READ this post all the way through before some of you guys come at me acting like i’m the shifting police. don’t skim, don’t read one paragraph and comment “omg who CARES😒” READ. PLEASE GUYS READING IS GOOD FOR YOU😭.