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Re:Black barbers have become mental health advocates for Afr... by antihero on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @12:14PM (#28290819)
Because membership of a group, especially for marginalised and oppressed peoples, is a way to have shared strength and be able to relate to others' experiences and protect each other. Which is an incredibly powerful and necessary until the world is significantly fairer.

Also in the case of barbers, it is plainly obvious: Experience working with hair of a certain type.

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Re:Black barbers have become mental health advocates for Afr... by randomopining on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @12:18PM (#28290866)
What I'm saying is that the people in this "group" may have almost nothing in common at all, except for having a darker shade of skin color.

Aka get rid of the simple descriptors of "white" "black" etc since they mean very little or nothing at all.

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Re:Black barbers have become mental health advocates for Afr... by micromacrofoot on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @12:22PM (#28290948)
these descriptions mean a lot when they determine how you're treated by society
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Re:Black barbers have become mental health advocates for Afr... by minikites on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @12:25PM (#28290980)
>may have almost nothing in common at all, except for having a darker shade of skin color

That darker shade causes them to be mistreated in similar ways by American society.

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