• @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    810 months 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
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      1110 months 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.

    • @jerkface@lemmy.ca
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      -310 months 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”.