WHY ARE YALL ACTING LIKE THIS IS A NEW CONCEPT?
THE TRANS ETHNIC JOKE HAS BEEN TOSSED AROUND FOR A WHILE.
THIS ISNT ORIGINAL...
SHE IS GROUNDBREAKING...
SHE JUST USED IT AS A GUISE TO POST RACISM.
This is new to me, I don't spend much time on Tumblr so the first time I heard this argument was yesterday and I've yet to see someone argue against the point she raised in an effective way, not even in this 15 page thread. Yes, Blackface is racist, that's the low hanging fruit on this tree of a troll, it's used to draw a comparison to a trans person wearing an item of the opposite sex to show the world that they identify as that sex, she's wearing Blackface to "come out" to the world as Black, the stereotypes, watermelon and chicken were meant to draw comparisons between a transgender person who uses stereotypes about the opposite sex to justify why they feel like they're that sex.
I think that people would see it more apparently if she didn't use Black people to illustrate her point, because it's obvious that many people can't see the entire picture being painted because they get hung up on the racism and dismiss everything else.