A TikTok influencer with almost 50,000 followers said white people cannot identify as non-binary because it is white people who invented and are responsible for upholding the gender binary.
White people who identify as non-binary could soon find themselves facing the wrath of the pronoun platoon if the latest developments in the land of TikTok hit the mainstream.
Reb Raconte, a TikTok influencer with almost 50,000 followers, recently shared a video stating that white people cannot identify as non-binary because it is white people who invented and are responsible for upholding the gender binary, so therefore they shouldn’t have the option to opt out of it.
https://rumble.com/embed/v1jbbpw/?pub=2n05b
The idea that the gender binary is the creation of white supremacists is nothing new. Another TikTok user explained that “the gender binary is a direct result of European colonization” and suggested that a look at world history and “the ways people have existed and talked about gender” would show that “the idea that there are only two genders is a new concept that is directly linked to white supremacy.”
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1586847074431090688?s=20&t=x7wP_S-YGm6NFHVP5LjSrg
This is not an idea confined to rainbow-haired activists on social media. It appeared in Trudeau’s 2SLGBTQI+ Federal Action Plan which was revealed earlier this year, in which Canadians were told that “the ‘closet’ was brought to Indigenous territories by European settlers” and that Europeans committed a "gendercide," meaning “the intentional elimination of Indigenous people who were perceived to be neither fully male nor fully female or expressed a unique third or other gender.”
Blaire White pointed out the trend common in leftist circles of linking everything to race, no matter whether there's a connection or not.
"Never underestimate a leftist’s ability to make something completely unrelated to race, completely about race," tweeted White.
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1586849754901880839?s=20&t=x7wP_S-YGm6NFHVP5LjSrg
According to Raconte, white people use the gender binary to “justify the oppression of black and brown people,” before going on to use the example of “black women being pushed out of sporting events because their testosterone is too high.”
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1555295705861951488?s=20&t=-LB8ot1yTjcJrJu8wYsswQ
Here, Raconte is referring to athletes such as Caster Semenya, a woman with a rare Disorder of Sex Development (DSD) which leads to a person with XY chromosomes and internal testes developing outwardly as a female. Semenya’s DSD results in going through a male-typical puberty and thereby gaining all the athletic advantages that brings. She is therefore not banned from participating in female sports categories because of white supremacists upholding the gender binary, but rather because her testosterone levels have been deemed to be naturally too high for her to fairly compete against female athletes.
In a world where everyone is jostling for a place on the pyramid of oppression, white heterosexual people have few options open to them beyond identifying as transgender or non-binary. Many detransitioners describe adopting a trans identity as teenagers as a way to opt of their “oppressor guilt” after being bombarded with messages about how white, cisgender, heterosexual people are evil.
Even celebrity “internet mom” and author Amanda Jette Knox deployed the same tactic after finding herself facing criticism for being a “cis” person speaking too much about trans issues. This accusation triggered Knox to do some soul-searching which led to the realization that she was in fact non-binary with she/they pronouns, thereby securing her place on the pyramid of oppression and her right to continue proselytizing to the masses.
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