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b_b  ·  4003 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Complete Guide to 'Hipster Racism'

    It's a lot more complicated than that writer makes it out to be.

Of course it is. Saying race is not complicated is absolutely ridiculous. Maybe the concept of race (in a genetic sense) is arbitrary, but what's complicated is our historical relationship to race and the contingencies in which that relationship has evolved. Anyone who argues history isn't complicated never got much past their 9th grade history textbook.