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> Do you really want someone with a shitload of existing drug connections, being the poster face for the industry you're trying to vanillify? This seems like a
by MrsPeaches 11y ago
> Do you really want someone with a shitload of existing drug connections, being the poster face for the industry you're trying to vanillify?
This seems like a poor choice of words at best.
- mc32 11y agoWord choice is fine. Vanilla means plain, unremarkable, blends in well. To become an unremarkable part of the economy. Taking an altogether different meaning not fitting the context says more about your interpretive frame of reference.
- david-given 11y agoYeah, this meaning has been around for ages: http://www.hacker-dictionary.com/terms/vanilla http://www.hacker-dictionary.com/terms/vanilla Where I'm from, vanilla crisps are ready salted. And vanilla ice cream is vanilla.
- kennywinker 11y agoI think it was pointed out because vanilla is also associated with "white". In this case, one reading of the comment is "an industry you're trying to make white".
- kbutler 11y agoWord choice is problematic: "vanillify" (exceedingly rare, new jargon "to make bland" doesn't even show up in google ngrams) is too similar to "vilify" (to demonize) to use in a context of "to un-demonize". https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=vanillify&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url= https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=vanillify&case... "face of" or "poster boy for", rather than the mixed-up "poster face for". https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=poster+boy%2Cposter+face&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t4%3B%2Cposter%20boy%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bposter%20boy%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BPoster%20Boy%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cposter%20face%3B%2Cc0#t4%3B%2Cposter%20boy%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3Bposter%20boy%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BPoster%20Boy%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cposter%20face%3B%2Cc1 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=poster+boy%2Cp... But then, just because nobody says it that way isn't a reason not to...
- savanaly 11y agoI read it twice and then saw what he meant. I think he's alluding to how since the flavor vanilla is associated with whiteness, "vanillify" has a cheeky double meaning: make more respectable and make more white skinned.
- jdmichal 11y agoFunnily enough, vanilla is actually very dark. The bean itself is dark-brown-almost-black, and the extract is also a dark brown liquid. Vanilla ice cream is white because milk is white, and because it doesn't take a lot of vanilla to flavor it. If you have a good vanilla ice cream, you'll see little black specs in it; that's the vanilla.
- MrsPeaches 11y ago> Taking an altogether different meaning not fitting the context. My comment was referring to the fact that the article is about black people being excluded from this new business opportunity. From the article: > For now, he explained, California plans to decide whether drug felons like the Distributor can participate in the medical market on a case-by-case basis...White males tend to do better when it’s subjective. It was a pun to highlight/explore the question: do people feel prefer having white people sell marijuana? In this case my interpretation of the questions was "do you want a black face as the poster for an industry white males are taking over?"
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoConversely, polysemy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysemy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysemy) is a concept that exists, and please consider this person's /nom de mic/ in this context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rog8ou-ZepE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rog8ou-ZepE