I'm horrified and speechless.
This ain't it. https://twitter.com/jessi_ex/status/1252054660879392768
Let's just.... clear this entire mess up a little because this is some lies being spewed as intersectionality and predicated on the assumption that all mixed folk are white plus something else and completely lacks all nuance.

"race...as a socially constructed concept, ~
~ functions as a means to maintain the interests of the white population that constructed it."
https://www.britannica.com/topic/critical-race-theory

1. The concept of race (above) is NOT based solely on appearance.
2. If you are ethnically a minority, you are NOT what Whiteness is trying to uphold.
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3. There is such a thing as *white passing privilege*, yes, that folx that pass as white must address and come to terms with. Sometimes you are seen as white, sometimes you are not.

4. But for the love of FUCK, this completely lacks ~
~ the NUANCE and understanding that Whiteness is fluid and shifts the "us" and "them" at various points in history. It is not about LOOKING white. You can look white and still not be considered white and have less privilege and then later on have white passing privilege.
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~ 5. AND INTERSECTIONALITY IS NOT THE OPPRESSION OLYMPICS BUT RECOGNISES EACH PERSON'S OPPRESSION AS UNIQUE AND REQUIRING UNIQUE SOLUTIONS.
6. When you ARE seen as white, YES, that is when you have privilege, and it is called WHITE PASSING privilege.
7. Let us be very clear ~
8. ~ that white-passing folx's struggles are not GREATER than those of a POC and do NOT overshadow POC's experiences but are different. But also do not minimise the racial and racist experiences white-passing people experience.
9. Mixed folx, yes, do not know what it's like ~
~ to be a POC, but they DO KNOW WHAT THEIR OWN UNIQUE LIVED EXPERIENCE LOOKS LIKE and it is DIFFERENT from being POC. It is UNIQUE - the exact thing intersectionality recognises - the UNIQUENESS of our intersections
10. "white people who are mixed" are mixed people. They are ~
~ not white.
11. "[mixed folk] taking up so much space with their think pieces about how they “don’t belong anywhere,” when they benefit from white privilege." Maybe they too deserve space to speak about their lived experiences because they legit feel that?
YES mixed folx ~
~ talk to each other rather than speaking over POC if that's what you're doing but this take of mixed folks somehow being JUST white COMPLETELY ERASES their background.
12. When you get into ethnicity, you see how many ethnic groups are actually excluded from Whiteness ~
~ as a concept and have been included and excluded over time through history.
13. Have you even studied intersectionality? Have you read Kimberle Crenshaw? Have you studied critical race theory?
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/subject_specific_writing/writing_in_literature/literary_theory_and_schools_of_criticism/critical_race_theory.html
I'm so mad, y'all. I'm so upset.
And, because I didn't address it, the concept of whiteness:

"Whiteness becomes transformed into social, political, economic, and cultural behaviour. White culture, norms, and values in all these areas become normative natural. They become the standard against which all other~
~ cultures, groups, and individuals are measured and usually found to be inferior (Henry & Tator, 2006, p. 46-47)."
...
"a dominant cultural space with enormous political significance, with the purpose to keep others on the margin. ... [W]hite people are not required to ~
~ explain to others how ‘white' culture works, because ‘white' culture is the dominant culture that sets the norms. Everybody else is then compared to that norm. ... In times of perceived threat, the normative group may well attempt to reassert its normativity by asserting ~
~ elements of its cultural practice more explicitly and exclusively (21)."

SOURCE FOR THESE: http://www.aclrc.com/whiteness 
THAT LINK BTW IS EXCELLENT

More from there:
"Whiteness ... does not just refer to skin colour but its ideology based on beliefs, values behaviors, habits and attitudes, which result in the unequal distribution of power and privilege based on skin colour. ... ~
~ ... It represents a position of power where the power holder defines the categories, which means that the power holder decides who is white and who is not (Frye, 1983).

It is relational. "White" only exists in relation/opposition to other categories/locations in the racial ~
~ hierarchy produced by whiteness. In defining "others," whiteness defines itself.

It is fluid - who is considered white changes over time (Kivel, 1996)."
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