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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8984796" data-attributes="member: 6704184">On this at least, I agree with you. Removing established mixed race ancestries from the face of the game is an act of erasure, as is a model for mixed race that makes us “actually just one or the other, but maybe you look like the other”. That’s just fantasy blood quantum. Barbarian never went away, it spread and gained broader meaning. You may think “half” is fine now, but enough people disagree that it really doesn’t matter. The term makes people feel like they are being referred to as less than. That’s it. Guess what, we can change what terms we use. No one ever died because a word fell out of fashion. No, they’re not. Not anywhere near enough to say this like it’s a sweeping universality. Most of them are just young white kids who don’t know anything about Rasta, and are just copping a style they think looks cute and they associate with smoke shops and hippies. It’s completely disconnected from any cultural origin. As far as the example being a “mistake”, even if you had just schooled me (which you haven’t) it would just mean that ignored a whole list in order to target the one you saw a weakness in and then act like that debunked the whole post, which is one of the weakest forms of argument you can engage in. You cannot possibly think that Rastas are the target of the example. Stop being reactionary and listen to what people are saying, please. And calling me a punk kid because I said a thing you twisted into a whole different thing is hilarious.</blockquote>

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