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@aral went off on me for calling him a white dude, countering that he's "middle eastern." Which fine, that may be his ethnic background but nobody sees his photo and sees a PoC, he is as white as the rest of Ireland, which is where he has lived most of his life. Furthermore, he explicitly identifies as "European" on his own company website.

I could use my Sicilian ethnicity to call myself "Mediterranean" but I know society grants me the privileges of a white man so I don't.

@reflex@retrogaming.social You don’t know shit about me, David. I didn’t spend most of my life in Ireland. We arrived here a little under five years ago.

So, again, stop spreading lies about me, stop wilfully misidentifying my race, and stop harassing me.

ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-be

Aral Balkan · Fedora has been shipping with a broken screen reader for nine years but the real problem is meFedora has an ableism problem but woe to you if you point it out.

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People in this thread know this, of course, but to prevent any clowns from claiming this is being denied here, let’s be explicit: not being fully White unfortunately does not mean there isn’t rampant anti-Black racism in the Middle East, South Asia, etc.

theconversation.com/how-white-

The ConversationHow ‘white’ fragility perpetuates anti-Black racism in Arab societiesInsights from the book White Fragility also shed light into racism in Arab society.