Practitioners of “race change to another,” or RCTA, purport to be able to manifest physical changes in their appearance and even their genetics to truly become a different race.
In addition to the racism, I’m also seeing a worrying trend of “reality bending” (idk the specific term). I’ve heard about it before, and its basically trying to manifest your dreams through affirmations and wishing really hard. I this is especially worrying because it’s a sort of obsessive escapism, and very dangerous because it prevents you from engaging in reality for the hope that you will manifest into the “perfect” one. In this case, you basically sidestep the gruesome realities of racism and its effects through a vaporware, ephemeral, “poppy” aesthetic. Race becomes a sort of commodity, an aesthetic to be used and discarded once its done, and not a historical system of oppression to be dismantled. We need to be careful of those who commoditize oppresion…
In addition to the racism, I’m also seeing a worrying trend of “reality bending” (idk the specific term). I’ve heard about it before, and its basically trying to manifest your dreams through affirmations and wishing really hard. I this is especially worrying because it’s a sort of obsessive escapism, and very dangerous because it prevents you from engaging in reality for the hope that you will manifest into the “perfect” one. In this case, you basically sidestep the gruesome realities of racism and its effects through a vaporware, ephemeral, “poppy” aesthetic. Race becomes a sort of commodity, an aesthetic to be used and discarded once its done, and not a historical system of oppression to be dismantled. We need to be careful of those who commoditize oppresion…