Please stop using white PASSING and white PRESENTING interchangeably. Those are two different things.
White PASSING is when you can be seen as white.
White PRESENTING is when you’re doing everything in your power to be perceived as white.
You can be passing without presenting. But you can’t being presenting without passing.
This is a more nuanced conversation than I can and can’t add to, but it’s. A conversation that needs to be had.
Passing vs. Presenting will changed depending on context. Meaning if it’s in the black community, then the context of ( let’s say) Hasley and Logic being a white passing mixed person will have a different weight than ( let’s say) being passing or presenting as someone’s who’s Filipino and German.
Context matters, and this is a debatable( so to speak) topic. But do remember that these terms are started within the Black community and is rooted in slavery.
Does this make sense?
Also learn the difference between being perceived as white passing or presenting and IDENTIFYING as white passing or presenting. Like you can be perceived and not identify as such.
