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what's the racist background?
by dingle3 6y ago
what's the racist background?
- waheoo 6y agoBlack people = bad, white people = good. Rosstex posted a good explain below.
- drdeca 6y agoThe explanation that Rosstex posted does not refer to “black” people, or to “white” people?
- libria 6y agoBy "racist background" they mean "racist association". Perhaps it didn't start that way but due to history it can easily be twisted to be seen as offensive. I can't tattoo a swastika on my arm, despite its origins.
- drdeca 6y ago“Easily twisted to be seen as offensive” is not the same thing as “offensive”. [edit: also, that doesn’t really explain citing Rosstex?] Also, my understanding is that that there are places in the world where the primary associations for a swastika are the earlier ones, not the nazi ones. I don’t see a reason to tell the people living in those places to stop using that symbol amongst themselves (though asking that they not use it in places where it is likely to be genuinely misinterpreted may be reasonable)
- elcomet 6y agoWhitelist = allowed list (because white people were allowed in all places). Blacklist = deny list (because black people were denied in many places).
- dingle3 6y agoanything to back this up? my searches mostly come up with either greeks physically using black ballots to vote to excommunicate people, or putting names in a black book in 1600s, which was usually reserved for enemies and most likely was not racially motivated.
- buzzy_hacker 6y agoGenuinely curious, do we have sources for the words used in a specifically racial context?
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