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But is any of it actually racially charged? It’s so strange to use race like this – it cheapens the egregious instances where racism is truly at play.
by sebmellen 6y ago
But is any of it actually racially charged? It’s so strange to use race like this – it cheapens the egregious instances where racism is truly at play.
- jcims 6y agoIt's not new but there's clearly a linguistic analogue of the music 'loudness wars' at play, in which we are losing all dynamic range in our language. Where terms previously used to describe people willing to unceremoniously lynch black folks or beat them to death and throw them off a bridge is now, for example, casually applied to millions of people working in an industry that has unbalanced hiring outcomes.