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[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Customizing appearance, the apparent racist origin of the term is no longer relevant as very few would even know it and even fewer would use it in a racist context

[-] Mayonnaise@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

I'm not about to start screaming that xyz is racist, but I would argue that just because very few would know or recognize that something has racist origins that doesn't (in my opinion) make it okay to use. I would hope that people could come up with another term to use that conveys the same message.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would rather words evolve and lose connotations

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca -3 points 1 year ago

Ah, so it's okay to be obtusely racist in ways the go under the radar. Like dog whistles and complaining about being "gypped".

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

The point being that the connection is no longer there

Like saying slave, there are no connections to slav anymore

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago

As a slav: Still salty. But hey, it's been only a thousand years or so.

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