I don't know if it's correct to comment (at last, you wanted to get your own full impression) this early on it, but - I just say it how I understood some of these points in it.
E. g. nr. 1 I understood them meaning it in the way "all POC make these experiences every day of their lives - white people don't see it, so all POC are always at all times in every economic situation or hierarchival position disadvantaged compared to them" (which I don't find to be true - globally completely not; e. g. black people also exploit black people in Africa if they're rich enough and got a pretty high position in society).
Nr. 2 makes me reply "Well, but what about, for example, all the white people from countries which are being regarded as "trash" (or "shithole countries") in the 1st world and which work their asses off in the Western countries under illegal and inhumane conditions because the employers in the West think they can do this? Do they have a significant advantage through their "race" in their lives and do they truly benefit that much from a system that's "only" racist, but which practically disadvantages and looks down on them too all the time?". (Which means in its TL;DR-Version: Is there really such a unified "white people" which all benefit from POC's doing the dirty work and which are all happy and prospering from making them do that? I find: No.)
Nr. 3, as an aspect, I felt like understanding it with the same subtle undertone with which people claim "sex is a construct" - and this is a negation of biological realities... A socially uncomfortable matter of fact is that skin color can cause some physical troubles with vitamin D production if you live in a climatic zone which your skin color originally hasn't been adapted to. This applies to white people if they travel to spaces on the earth that receive more sun hours with a higher intensity of the sunlight itself (sunburn), as well vice versa if black people live in a more Nordic climatic zone. Originally adapted to sun intensity in equatorial zone, their skin produces too few vit D on its own if they live in the temperate zone. All types of skin-related diseases may also have a little different look if they appear on a white-skinned or a dark brown-skinned person. Scalp hair also has some specialities which either side only knows (e. g. a naturally-existing Afro hairdo).
It's not really "races" - that's picking up Nazi bullshit -, critisizing that point is correct, but, as I keep saying, "phenotype" exists. Different physical conditions require different ways of dealing with them.
In that point, the choice of words to speak of "social construction" seems failed content-wise. I can't socially construct the complexion of my skin, but I can create a social construct about the meaning of it in society.
Nr. 6 makes me spontaneously get to a point... "Racial minorities" and it firmly means "brown-skinned people"? The greatest accumulations of world population can be found in India and China. Africa, as a continent, also carries almost 1,4 billion people by now. So - a significant part of the world population isn't white. A not so small part of it (which would be a "minority") even is brown-skinned in any type of tone. Does that qualify for a "racial minority"in the world? In plain math, no, it doesn't. Brown-skinned people could actually have power over the world that White people from Europe created because they could overpower them in sheer numbers, but for some reason they don't, don't seem to want to or can't acquire it.
E. g. nr. 1 I understood them meaning it in the way "all POC make these experiences every day of their lives - white people don't see it, so all POC are always at all times in every economic situation or hierarchival position disadvantaged compared to them" (which I don't find to be true - globally completely not; e. g. black people also exploit black people in Africa if they're rich enough and got a pretty high position in society).
Nr. 2 makes me reply "Well, but what about, for example, all the white people from countries which are being regarded as "trash" (or "shithole countries") in the 1st world and which work their asses off in the Western countries under illegal and inhumane conditions because the employers in the West think they can do this? Do they have a significant advantage through their "race" in their lives and do they truly benefit that much from a system that's "only" racist, but which practically disadvantages and looks down on them too all the time?". (Which means in its TL;DR-Version: Is there really such a unified "white people" which all benefit from POC's doing the dirty work and which are all happy and prospering from making them do that? I find: No.)
Nr. 3, as an aspect, I felt like understanding it with the same subtle undertone with which people claim "sex is a construct" - and this is a negation of biological realities...
A socially uncomfortable matter of fact is that skin color can cause some physical troubles with vitamin D production if you live in a climatic zone which your skin color originally hasn't been adapted to.
This applies to white people if they travel to spaces on the earth that receive more sun hours with a higher intensity of the sunlight itself (sunburn), as well vice versa if black people live in a more Nordic climatic zone. Originally adapted to sun intensity in equatorial zone, their skin produces too few vit D on its own if they live in the temperate zone.
All types of skin-related diseases may also have a little different look if they appear on a white-skinned or a dark brown-skinned person.
Scalp hair also has some specialities which either side only knows (e. g. a naturally-existing Afro hairdo).
It's not really "races" - that's picking up Nazi bullshit -, critisizing that point is correct, but, as I keep saying, "phenotype" exists. Different physical conditions require different ways of dealing with them.
In that point, the choice of words to speak of "social construction" seems failed content-wise.
I can't socially construct the complexion of my skin, but I can create a social construct about the meaning of it in society.
Nr. 6 makes me spontaneously get to a point... "Racial minorities" and it firmly means "brown-skinned people"? The greatest accumulations of world population can be found in India and China. Africa, as a continent, also carries almost 1,4 billion people by now. So - a significant part of the world population isn't white. A not so small part of it (which would be a "minority") even is brown-skinned in any type of tone.
Does that qualify for a "racial minority"in the world? In plain math, no, it doesn't.
Brown-skinned people could actually have power over the world that White people from Europe created because they could overpower them in sheer numbers, but for some reason they don't, don't seem to want to or can't acquire it.
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