Hate to say it, but rich people have always thought designer logos were tacky.

But I think the point is that the experience of knowing how truly fluid and random race is makes some of us more understanding of the idea that “race” doesn’t really exist in a meaningful way at all.

I’ve been thinking (here, a couple of times) about my niece. She was born in Guatemala and adopted as a baby by my Chinese brother. Her name is Chinese. Her family is Chinese. Her culture is Chinese. I think she was even head of her school’s Asian-American group. On top of that, since she’s visually sort of smallish…

I don’t think she sought out this attention, and would be glad for it to go away.

Exactly. I can’t help but think that a lot of the really hateful commentary about her (and OF COURSE there are tons of issues with what she did, foremost being lying) comes from people who are pretty secure in their racial identities. I’ve seen so much racial essentialism - “You are what you are, period,” that I’m…

A shitty person who used her shittiness to revitalize an NAACP chapter? We could use more crap like that.

So you don’t understand the difference.

Although the points you are all true, I’m afraid that the whole is less (or maybe greater) than the sum. Sure, on an individual basis more Americans agree with Bernie Sanders on specific policy points. But that’s not what wins elections. Elections are won by meticulously collecting electoral votes in battleground…

lol *cough* Spiro Agnew *cough*

You get that there’s a difference between primaries and general elections, right?

Oh yeah I’ve been saying it’s got to be a Castro brother for years. It makes perfect sense. Total balance.

Honest question - do you think anyone just happens to become president? Seems to me you’re really only going to get people who are pretty goal-oriented, being president-wise.

I don’t mean this in a harsh way, because I really like Bernie too, but do you really, honestly think he can win the presidency with a larger margin than Obama?

I ran the Jesse Jackson “campaign” in my class. We won, too.

Oh, sweetheart. No.

Look, I love Bernie. New England family, red diaper baby, down with Bernie for years and years. No other candidate in memory has shared my politics to the same degree. Nothing would please me better than Bernie Sanders as President.

See I get this and have the exact same instinctual reaction of “this DIFFERENT” but then I think: if race is even more of a construct, and even more fluid, then why is that an argument against “transracialism” (ugh ugh ugh on that term)?

Yeah - and the whole “she’s TOTALLY CRAZY AND LYING about being born in a teepee - we weren’t even living in the teepee at that point!” stuff is weird too.

But haven’t Native Americans adopted outsiders into their tribes throughout history? Like, one tribe to another, but also early missionaries and other various white folk, not to mention various escaped slaves etc.?

Well, except this is someone who, by all reports, has not done anyone any harm and has been a positive force. The stuff about the hate crimes being a hoax and all is still in flux - obviously that’s fucked up. But to have a whole 2-day vicious super-doxxing of someone who was trying to do good, and whose messages are…