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1. Ukv+rD[view] [source] 2025-01-13 15:49:49
>>crbela+(OP)
> Imagine having to explain to a well-meaning visitor from another planet why using the phrase "people of color" is considered particularly enlightened, but saying "colored people" gets you fired. [...] There are no underlying principles.

To understand much of our language, Gnorts would have to already be aware that our words and symbols gain meaning from how they're used, and you couldn't, for instance, determine that a swastika is offensive (in the west) by its shape alone.

In this case, the term "colored people" gained racist connotations from its history of being used for discrimination and segregation - and avoiding it for that reason is the primary principle at play. There's also the secondary/less universal principle of preferring "person-first language".

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2. tayo42+Wd1[view] [source] 2025-01-13 18:47:15
>>Ukv+rD
Haven't read the article yet, skimming the comments.

Wild quote though. Does PG self censor when using the N word? Or does he say it, with the hard r?

If that word isn't part of his vocabulary, why not? Seems like it should be.

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3. recurs+Hf1[view] [source] 2025-01-13 18:55:34
>>tayo42+Wd1
> If that word isn't part of his vocabulary, why not? Seems like it should be.

I don't get the comparison. Hard "R" or not makes little difference. You're eligible to be canceled for using either form. So not like PoC/CP.

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4. johnny+EY2[view] [source] 2025-01-14 04:44:36
>>recurs+Hf1
> Hard "R" or not makes little difference

Should have told that to that teacher from decades ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz9Zy2-C_lY

Such a wild interview that Boondocks outright sampled it for an episode.

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