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    1 month ago

    Blood quantum laws were originally laws made by colonizers in the US deciding who got to be Indigenous based on the percentage of “Indian blood” they have - colonial era Australia did the same thing to Aboriginal people. Slavery-era classifications like “octaroon” are another example.

    I was using it more broadly here to mean the essentialist belief that ethnicity is dna-based.

    Blood Quantum is also a horror movie :-)