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minus-squareMBM@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down15·1 year agoIsn’t blacks (noun) considered dehumanizing?
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minus-squareShrimpsIsBugs@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoNot all black people are African-American or even African or American, you know? I’d be way more irritated if someone called me African-American than black, since one of these is true and the other simply isn’t.
minus-squareMBM@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·1 year agoJust black, as in “the black version of gonewild”
minus-squarestebo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·1 year agobut thats what it says
minus-squarestebo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·1 year agoblack gone wild, blacks gone wild, what’s the difference? just a single letter? how is one respectful and the other not?
Isn’t blacks (noun) considered dehumanizing?
what word would you use instead?
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Not all black people are African-American or even African or American, you know? I’d be way more irritated if someone called me African-American than black, since one of these is true and the other simply isn’t.
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Just black, as in “the black version of gonewild”
but thats what it says
Read it again.
black gone wild, blacks gone wild, what’s the difference? just a single letter? how is one respectful and the other not?
No
I suppose it depends on context.