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Apparently it’s “virtue signaling” and “language policing” to not want to use language that actively oppresses people. Very cool.

We are so far away from any meaningful change it hurts.

amerikkka amerikkka amerikkka

My favorite:

Oh, I mistook people being anti-ICE for being anti-fascist… turns out they’re only anti-ICE

I guess being anti-ICE and being a Good Person are mutually exclusive of one another. My bad, y’all.

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[–] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 20 points 6 days ago (3 children)

We say chud and hog with vitriol too though? I don’t think saying things meanly is the problem.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 22 points 6 days ago (2 children)

First I'll paste a comment I left about this recently:

Yes, but the people who are using it that way are doing it as a cover so they can just cosplay lynching a black person. I'm not saying you are doing that at all, but that is the crowed you end up associating with as a result of using it. There's a reason it sounds like the N-word with a hard R. I've seen enough shit on the internet surrounding the term to know that they are just black-coding all the "robots" in all these conversations/videos. Taylor Lorenz, for as much of a liberal she can be at times, has good coverage of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBtbkOfUlIo. Another term that had been floating around was "wireback" which is just replacing "wet" with "wire" in the traditional slur against Mexicans.

Second, Chud and Hog do not root themselves in an actual slur in the same way that "clanker" and "wireback" do, which I always thought was pretty obvious.

[–] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 10 points 6 days ago

Wireback I get, but “clanker” comes from a Star Wars cartoon and is closer to “clunker” which is old timey slang for a faulty machine. The only thing it has in common with the N word is an -er suffix, which is ubiquitous.

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 6 days ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Clanker is just an excuse to get away with saying something close enough to the N-word for these people

It's already gross enough when they say shit like that and then titter away like a school kid who got away with saying dookie

It's worse when you can tell they're using it as an actual slur

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's worse when you can tell they're using it as an actual slur

TBH they give the whole game away when they say "Wireback". "Clanker" had the excuse of being from Star Wars, there's no way to get to "Wireback" without deriving directly from an actual racial slur and no reason to do so other than to tear the mask off for all your fellow chuds while keeping only barely a small layer of "plausible" deniability for the civility lib audience.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 24 points 6 days ago (3 children)

For real

And it's so fucking exhausting being like "Hey, i'm Hispanic, please don't talk like that, it's really messed up" only to get a barrage of "Chill out man, we're only pretending"

And it's like, out of everything you could use your imagination to do, you chose to be a racist?

fry

[–] OffSeasonPrincess@hexbear.net 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

out of everything you could use your imagination to do, you chose to be a racist?

Average fantasy author creating their races

[–] D61@hexbear.net 16 points 6 days ago

"Pretend Racist"

"Real Racist"

same-picture

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 15 points 6 days ago

"Chill out man, we're only pretending"

Only pretending to be a member of the KKK, LMAO. agony-turbo

[–] D61@hexbear.net 16 points 6 days ago

A person can change their behavior and beliefs and stop being a chud or hog. Using a word as a slur that refers to an unchangeable part of a person or entity is the problem.