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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

This would be a quick way to see of it's racist, close minded, or just straight bs.

Ex1- You want women to kill babies, boy!

Ex2- You want to feed the homeless, boy!

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[-] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

I think most non-Southerners' exposure to it is in media, where it's almost always racist in context. There's a surprising amount of subtly in Southern social interactions that I think it's missing from most of the US. Sure, Midwesterners are known for raising passive-aggressiveness to an art form, but you recognize it no matter where you're from.

The subtly in social interactions in the South are truly exceptional, hard to get a handle on, and unmatched anywhere else in the US - IMHO. Southerners have as many ways of being condescending as Eskimos have words for snow.

Is that phrase still acceptable, or is the Eskimo/snow comment now not PC? Is it still OK to use the term "Eskimo?" If the Eskimo thing is offensive, I sincerely apologize. An alternative would be "as North-westerners have words for rain," but I don't know if that's as widely understood an idiom.

[-] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's why my main point still stands. You know where someone stands the way they say it. I could greet you or disrespect you, all depends in my tone.

Bro, great posting! πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘ @sxan@midwest.social

They need a "follow accounts" button here. Like if a reporter used !worldnews@lemmy.ml you could just follow the reporter.

[-] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

They need a "follow accounts" button here. Like if a reporter used

Thank you!

And: dude! I have totally thought the same thing! It's so weird that Mastodon has follow-accounts, but no communities; Lemmy has join-communities but no follow-accounts; and they're both ActivityPub. You'd think that would be a no-brainer feature, right?

[-] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe someone will cook it up. Wish I had the know how to do it.

[-] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it'd have to be a Lemmy design change, and then all of the many clients would have to implement it... momentum is a powerful force in the software world, and difficult and dangerous to overcome. Look at the fiasco of Python 3; that was a cock-up of epic proportions. Lemmy's got enough users and clients now that changes have to be made extremely carefully.

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