• BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    No, I think there’s something to that. White being used to signify good and black being used for evil. It’s sort of problematically baked into the language. I guess that’s the joke, what with the KKK not really being associated with anything good. Like if they’d accidentally renovated a lot of black churches trying to firebomb them or something.

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      8 days ago

      The problem with that analysis that dichotomy is baked into most of not all human languages. The dark is bad, the light is good. Nearly every religion has a lightbringer reference. It’s basic human psychology.

      …which is why pink people and brown people shouldn’t be called white or black.

      • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.ca
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        8 days ago

        People shouldn’t be referred to by the colour of their skin unless it’s a descriptor, as in “the dark skinned man over there”.

        They should be referred to by their ethnic background if it matters to the conversation.

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          7 days ago

          Usually, if it matters, you don’t know their ethnic background. If you did you’d just use their name. For example, assuming everyone who’s black is African can be pretty problematic. Assuming everyone who’s black is black isn’t.

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            7 days ago

            Sometimes it matters when referring to a unique problem a certain group is facing due to their background, like “the Chinese American diaspora”, you don’t directly refer to individuals that way.

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              7 days ago

              Well sure, if the problem is due to something specific then you want to refer to that specific thing, not some totally different thing. Obviously. That’s not really what was being discussed.