At the same time, though...

I'm more racist than I'd like to admit. If I walked into a cafeteria where everyone was black except for one white person, I'd probably sit next to them.

Or if I walked into one where everyone was male except for one woman, I'd sit next to her.

Kind of like how I run into an American here, and I automatically kind of like them and feel a bond of solidarity.

"One day after this election is over I am going to write a piece about how Latino is a contrived ethnic category [... blah blah blah]"

Breaking news bulletin: All ethnic categories are contrived. All of them. That's the nature of categorizing.

"One day after this election is over I am going to write a piece about how Latino is a contrived ethnic category [... & blah blah blah]"

Breaking news bulletin: All ethnic categories are contrived. All of them. That's the nature of categorizing.

Sorry about the double-post; wonkiness at my end, I think.

Naw, its the hosting service (somewhar in Detroit IIRC)

The term "Latinx" -- coined by virtue-signalling White wokesters -- is an insult to all Spanish speakers. Spanish, like French, etc., is a gendered language. If you don't want to respect the Spanish language and use the word "Latino", we already have gender-neutral English terms for people from the Spanish-speaking world: "Latin" and "Hispanic."

I remember a common argument made by feminists was that each of us is so much more similar (or dissimilar) to each other as human beings than we are dissimilar to each other as men and women. That the difference was only a small part of who we were.

I more or less agree with that. This is even more true, of course, regarding racial differences. We have an irreducible physical difference as women or men; "race" is mainly a category of social meaning that has no absolutes. Thomas Chatterton Williams, a bi-racial/black man who has centered much of his life around that fact that he is black, has recently re-thought his entire worldview. His biological children have white skin, blonde hair, and blue eyes. They are in no ways "black." Suddenly the importance--even the feasibility--of passing on a "black" identity to them has been revealed. Maybe we're all just people and our racial categories are something to be perhaps acknowledged, but marginalized?

I have sat and talked with and been friends with a dark latino truck driver, a billionaire jew, a persian social group, a black pharma rep, professors, artists, you name it. If you aren't a jerk you can find the deep commonalities with most everyone. If you are looking to be insulted you can find it everywhere.

Whaddyoo mean, "aren't a jerk," CC?

WHAT ARE YOU GETTING AT, EXACTLY?? This is all part and parcel of your white supremacist heritage!

(Sorry, just wanted to try it out. It won't happen again.)

(It'll probably happen again.)