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Who actually actively thinks about skin colour when they use a word with a colour in it? Terms like "white lie", "white label", "white flag", "white whale", "wh
by Hamuko 3y ago
Who actually actively thinks about skin colour when they use a word with a colour in it? Terms like "white lie", "white label", "white flag", "white whale", "whiteout", "blackmail", "black ice", "Black Friday", "black humour", "blackout", "in the black". At least I've never seen one of those words and thought to myself "hey, like the colour of someone's skin!"
Not that skin colours are white or black. They're really all just various shades of brown.
- acdha 3y agoConsider that someone whose identity is often reduced to one of those might be more sensitive to it than someone who’s never had it used negatively against them.
- lwhi 3y ago[flagged]
- malermeister 3y agoThis is such an American take. A lot of people are not American and your issues are not ours. Stop the Cultural Imperialism. Educate yourself about the rest of the world.
- lwhi 3y agoI'm British.
- malermeister 3y agoPotato, Potato. Anglos gonna Anglo.