• shweddy@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Comes off racist if youre scared to use the word black for describing the color of a thing to someone who is black. Black isnt a bad word but you’re thinking of its negative connotations applied to people by racists.

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      Calling a black object “black” = Does not offend.

      Calling your car’s late ignition timing “retarded” = Does not offend.

      Calling your dog a “bitch” = Does not offend.

      Calling your rooster a “cock” = does not offend.

      Calling a tied bundle of sticks for burning a “removed” = Does not offend.

      Just follow your friendly dictionary and you’ll be fine.

      Also: Hi mods. You’re probably here because of your word filter.

      Edit: Something replaced “f-a-g-g-o-t” with “removed” automatically. I’m going to leave it because it’s hilarious that bundled sticks are forbidden.

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          That’s literally fascist propaganda. Fasces is Latin for a bundle of sticks and that was the image of strength that Italian fascists were trying to evoke.

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        Oh, so there is an automated censoring system in place. I thought people were saying removed en lieu of re-tard on Lemmy on whichever instance I was visiting. Kind of like how people use unalive.

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          I don’t think it’s Lemmy. I think it’s per-instance. Lemmy.world is not a great or open place. They’re very close to Reddit, with way too much control over Lemmy where it’s almost synonymous. Take this as a warning if you’re creating a community or new account to spread things out.

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              .ml doesn’t influence Lemmy much. Lemmy.world is the largest instance by far, and they leverage that control to force things on the larger Lemmy community. ml has issues, but at least they don’t force things on anyone else. The lead developer of Lemmy is there, so they could, but they don’t.

              Anyway, the point is that Lemmy is only as safe as it is diversified. People should be joining smaller instances, and communities created on other instances, rather than just going to the largest one.

          • knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de
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            Fuck off. Writing about how and why faggot is a slur is a legitimate use. Informing who used the term faggot in a degenerative way is a legitimate way to use it. Writing about the history of the word faggot also is.

            Censorship sucks.

            Automated Censorship is stupid and dangerous.

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                English isn’t my native language. Hard-R is that retard?

                I fear that refusing to use those words even in a educational sense is rewriting history a bit.

                It’s weird how americans who been all over the Internet claiming germany has no free speech because gloryfication of the Nazis is forbidden.

                Yet it was always fine to write that heil hitler was a common greeting of people who brutally murdered millions.

                While writing that fuckwit racists used the term nigger to put themselves over other humans is now frowned upon

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                I like to think of slurs as one of those, “we have freedom of speech but also you are not free from consequences for what you say,” sorta things. So, yeah, go ahead and say it if you want to, but don’t be a bitch about it if people tell you to fuck off or call you a Nazi.

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      7 days ago

      Reminds me of The Office joke where Michael asks Oscar what his ethnicity is and Oscar says “Mexican” and Michael says “There’s gotta be a better word to use than that”.

      • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
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        Also the bit in 30 Rock.

        “It’s not because you’re a… uh, what do you call yourself?”

        “A Puerto Rican.”

        “No, I know you can say that, but what do I call you?”

        “A Puerto Rican.”

        “Wow… that does not sound right.”

    • Cethin@lemmy.zip
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      I agree, but also black for coffee isn’t just describing the color. It’s describing the character. Sugar doesn’t change the color, but that isn’t black coffee. Black for coffee is a label/category, not a description.

      It’s still stupid to be scared to call it black, just as it’s stupid to be scared of calling black people black. It’s a common term that everyone understands, and it isn’t an insult.

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      So decades ago I worked at a bike shop and some college students came in. One of them was black, everyone else in the shop was white. She sat down on a bike, that was all black with dark grey lettering. And I said “this bike looks great, I love the black on black look.” Everyone looked at me funny, she immediately got off the bike, and i literally died inside and froze up.

      20 years later and i still think about this.

      Also I should note that it was not the first time I used that phrase for that bike - when you work sales you end up with little automatic narratives that you barely think about.

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        Blqck coffees can come in a variety of ways, most commonly long/short blacks and americanos.

        My original comment was basically saying that asking for a black coffee and expecting an espresso (implied in the comic) is kind of odd

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          Not sure where you’re from, but in Canada if you say “regular coffee” it is always drip, never espresso.

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      I feel like it isn’t, but just unfortunately resembles it due to the warm color palette

      Everything looks intentional, like it was illustrated with purpose

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    … Why would you say that(referring to the title). Just makes people use derogatory language in their head for the lulz.