@PortiaMcGonagal @NicolasEdny Yes & so let's look at that squarely B/C KIM KARDASHIANS sudden shameful attempt to portray herself as Black, POC or minority IS BULLSHIZZLE beyond t/pale
KK IS NOT BLACK by any stretch & her partial Armenian heritage does not provide for anything other than Whiteness;
And so
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KK IS NOT BLACK by any stretch & her partial Armenian heritage does not provide for anything other than Whiteness;
And so
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@PortiaMcGonagal @NicolasEdny here, a bit of history is in order:
In the US Armenians are and were considered part of the “Aryan race,” and thus White.
And as Armenian-American scholar and author bJanice Okoomian writes in her 2020 article "Armenian Americans and the Construction of
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In the US Armenians are and were considered part of the “Aryan race,” and thus White.
And as Armenian-American scholar and author bJanice Okoomian writes in her 2020 article "Armenian Americans and the Construction of
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@PortiaMcGonagal @NicolasEdny Whiteness"; "...Armenian Americans are fully implicated in the politics of race in the US. The fact that our ancestors were not slaveholders, that most of our families weren’t even here until after Reconstruction, or that we are not descended from those who colonized this
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@PortiaMcGonagal @NicolasEdny continent by committing genocide of its indigenous peoples, does not absolve us from responsibility for the privilege conferred by our legal whiteness.
We Armenians might indeed want to call ourselves people of color out of a desire not to be aligned with white racism; we
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We Armenians might indeed want to call ourselves people of color out of a desire not to be aligned with white racism; we
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@PortiaMcGonagal @NicolasEdny might feel a connection and desire for solidarity with the struggles of people of color based on some parallel elements of the Armenian experience in our homeland; we might want to reject Eurocentric cultural imperialism. But these perceptions
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@PortiaMcGonagal @NicolasEdny are internal. If you are able to choose what race you identify with, you have an important element of white privilege and you are probably white."
As far as I'm concerned Kim gets her own DSM 5 diagnostic category Narcissitic Race Appropriation Syndrome
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As far as I'm concerned Kim gets her own DSM 5 diagnostic category Narcissitic Race Appropriation Syndrome
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@PortiaMcGonagal @NicolasEdny (& BTW only WP meet criteria for this category because it's an attempt to claim victimhood where NONE EXISTS). Yeah it's that pathological and it robs those truly victimized by the Whiteness she partakes in EVERY DAMN DAY of their vioces and denies their very real pain
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@PortiaMcGonagal @NicolasEdny by usurping it using her Whote privilege as her own. It is the ultimate selfish self-centered act that Whiteness provides for as it is all about erasure.
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