You think wearing a dress from a culture that doesn't match your skin colour is evidence of racism, which is a product of your particular ideology. Even the language you use - "appropriating elements from a culture (traditional Chinese dress), a privilege born from systemic racism/colonialism" - is tied directly to this ideology. It carries with it implicit assumptions about what counts as racism, what's acceptable and unacceptable for white, african american, asian, and other identity groups, and what sorts of behaviours people should be morally concerned about. All of which would be rejected by anyone who doesn't subscribe to identitarian views like the ones you subscribe to. That is why people ascribe the ideology to you - you routinely talk the talk. Fine, you believe what you believe, just don't act so shocked when people make that connection.
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