• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Why do black people have to have the same hairstyles as white people?

    (You don’t need to answer that.)

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        7 months ago

        Control and erasing blackness. One of the many ways that they try to erase blackness. They know they can’t get away with killing off black people (yet), so they satisfy themselves with doing everything they can to eradicate blackness as a culture and just make it something that someone is supposed to feel guilty about being.

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      7 months ago

      I swear, 9 times out of 10, when I come across one of your posts, you’re misrepresenting what’s happening in order to artificially ramp up your outrage.

      Nothing in the policy requires black kids to have the same haircut as white kids. The school even noted that locs are fine, but the length is not.

      It’s a dumb policy that should go, but injecting race into it, without showing that white guys have gotten away with having long hair, is just disingenuous.

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        7 months ago

        I swear, 9 times out of 10, when I come across one of your posts, you’re misrepresenting what’s happening in order to artificially ramp up your outrage.

        That’s funny. I have you tagged as “stupid sophist/troll” because whenever I see your posts, you’re ginning up moronic arguments against self-evident conclusions. Anyone with a modicum of historical contextual knowledge can see that this policy and judgement are racially motivated. Many data points supporting this have already been posted here. Nobody’s injecting race into a situation from which it was previously absent.

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          7 months ago

          Can we take a moment to appreciate the irony of me being called a troll because I’m not conforming with the general opinion around here?

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        7 months ago

        I see. Black people are able to change into other animals in order to achieve hairstyles not possible for almost all people that don’t have natural black hair.

        I didn’t realize black people had shapeshifting powers.