#racialization

Wrote my first (small) theory piece in a while. In this I'd like to ask nonwhite trans readers "What does gendered racialization look like in your community?"

Check out the full piece here: https://anons.ee/black-woman-white-world/

I want to stress that this is not fodder for “socialization” theory. Do not skim this and start linking it as “proof” that male/female socialization exists, it does not.

I'm not suggesting it, I'm stating it clearly as indesputable fact.

Palestinians are an ethnonational group under the ethnic umbrella of "Arabs."

Again: Words mean things. Specific things.

Ethnicity is based on shared culture, language, heritage, religion, and geographic ancestry. Palestinians are an ethnic group bound by a shared history, culture, and national identity...making them an ethnonational group.

Race is traditionally a classification based on physical traits (phenotype) like skin color or hair texture. However, modern science agrees that race has no biological basis; it is a category societies create to group people.

It's been bizarre watching supposedly well-educated and "anti-racist" far left white folks racialize Palestinians.

In order to try to wrap their brains around a topic where thay have no knowledge and lots of emotional resonance, they superimpose the falsely oversimplified domestic dynamic they mistakenly think they understand and superimpose it on peoples they don't understand in a place they've never been stteped in cultures they've never studied.

The reason Western leftists keep insisting Palestinians are a race has less to do with Middle Eastern reality and more to do with Western optics.

​By framing Palestinians as a "race," they try to drag a complex, century-old ethnonational conflict into the familiar American binary of color politics. If they can categorize this as a simple issue of racial phenotype, they don't have to do the hard work of understanding borders, history, religion, or specific cultural heritage...they can just superimpose their own domestic map onto a territory they know nothing about.

Think you can reliably tell Israelis from Palestinians on sight? Think again.

​If one actually cares about the people involved, one owes them the respect of seeing them as they define themselves, not as stand-in characters in one's own political play.

All kinds of women including but not limited to women of racial and ethnic minorities and lesbian or gender nonconforming women frequently are targeted with rhetoric that frames them as sexually dangerous.

Historically, witch panics have frequently involved accusations of sexual deviance. Many women were targeted in the satanic panic in both America and Britain and some of these accusations continue to this day.

Just in my own life, I have had Black and Latino female friends who have been demonized as sexually provocative as literal children. My gentile grandmother publicly revealed sexual details about my Jewish aunt (her former daughter in laws sister) because of her belief that Jewish women are dirty.

The idea that men are the only targets of “false accusations” or sexual demonization isn’t true

🎤 please.... it does literally say "cool thoughts please" on the ask button and you have delivered... you're so right; everything they say about women is a fantasy and everything they say about men is a twisted argument