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And I'm 100 percent going to concede that's a political thing and a community thing. It's true, it's a logical statement. That for some black people their hair saloon have a particular relevance that's unique to them.

But I still say:

It's not a race thing. As it's not universal along black people all over the world. Black people from many countries, that still suffer a fuck ton of racisms, doesn't have that cultural context. It's not the primarily reason black people feel bad about losing their hair. First, because loosing your hair doesn't mean you stop going to the barber. You are still going to get shaved. Second, because most black people feel bad about loosing their hair for the same vanity reasons as white people. Because they make them look a way they don't want to look like. This discussion started not by saying "black people can feel bad about losing their hair because this community thing"... no... it started by saying "white people cannot feel bad loosing their hair if it's because they look old". While you may have provided some reasons on why a black person could have an additional reason to feel bad for going bald nothing has been said about the thousands of different races and identities that are neither black or white. The original argument was a criticism towards white people, they you trid to shift the discussion towards a excuse on why black people are allowed to feel bad for balding. Let's forget about black people. Tell me about asians, tell me about latin-americans, tell me about romanies. When they said that "white people it's not justified to feel bad" they should have provided arguments on why specifically white people cannot feel bad for it. Instead of providing a (bad) argument on why one of the thousands ethnicities that exist on earth may have an excuse to feel bad about balding.

I do not concede that the community bonding that white people form with their hair saloons is less important that the bonding form by black people. It may not be a political bonding, it may not be a bond that has roots on racisms. But it's still a bond, and humans are hurt when bonds are broken. A bond being political or root on racism is not "more important" than a bond created for other reasons. If they separate you from people you love or a place you belong is going to hurt all the same.

At some point it's just fucking sad that's actually pretty universal and bonding between races, as is it "going bald makes you feel like shit" has been tried to be transformed into "this particular race cannot share this feeling because fuck them apparently".