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because this is not avoidance speech. Implicit in your assumption here that "person of color" is avoiding saying, I dunno, a racial epithet? It isn't the same t
by JohnMakin 4y ago
because this is not avoidance speech. Implicit in your assumption here that "person of color" is avoiding saying, I dunno, a racial epithet? It isn't the same thing and this isn't an intelligent point that you think you're making.
- anononaut 4y agoIn what way is that not avoidance speech?
- JohnMakin 4y agoPer the wikipedia article listed in this topic: "Avoidance speech is a group of sociolinguistic phenomena in which a special restricted speech style must be used in the presence of or in reference to certain relatives."
- ilyt 4y agoSo it is avoidance speech by that definition
- JohnMakin 4y agoI'm not sure that you read what I posted. It's specifically in the familial context, not the large socio-economic one you're thinking of. Sorry, no matter how hard you want it to be, avoiding using the n word or whatever pejorative you can imagine is not some weird phenomenon, it's basic decency. What this article references is a unique sociological phenomenon outside the context of this conversation.