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Originally Posted by Coda

in terms of my ancestry, I'm... about as white as you get.

Excuse you, Coda? *says the person with British Isles, Northwestern European, Scandinavian, and very trace amounts of Southern European DNA* I am the whitest white bread here!

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lol I kid.

Ava, don't let the gatekeepers get you down. There's always gonna be some asshole who thinks they get to decide who is "in" and who isn't. Same with any other community. Hell, I'm Nonbinary, Asexual, and Panromantic, not to mention Autistic. No matter what, there's someone in any of the communities I'm in who would shout that I "don't belong" for one stupid, arbitrary reason or another.

From the sound of things, it's stupid, arbitrary reasons that people are trying to exclude biracial or mixed heritage POC, too. Best bet is to just ignore them, and do what feels right for you, including the labels you choose to wear.