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Yeah, I have a similar (EE) experience. A few years ago during some discussion about Africa a guy (who apparently turned on his wokeness to 11) called people t
by vasac 5y ago
Yeah, I have a similar (EE) experience.
A few years ago during some discussion about Africa a guy (who apparently turned on his wokeness to 11) called people there African Americans - people who lived all their lives in Africa and have nothing to do with America.
- cafard 5y agoThat has been going on for a while. At least fifteen years ago, I read an article about the Irish police busting a guy who was doing the Nigerian letter thing out of an internet cafe. The man was described as "African-American", though there was no evidence given in the article that he had ever crossed the Atlantic.
- bsanr2 5y agoI don't think this is "wokeness" so much as the centering of American perspectives crossing the streams with reasonable skittishness towards the prospect of referring to black people in an undignified manner (which, frankly, would simply be adding insult to trillion dollar injury). Can't blame white people for wanting to save face.