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> Maybe you agree we shouldn't use names for the Romani or Jewish people as idiom for being cheated All good and admirable, but when I meet someone from the S
by peoplefromibiza 2y ago
> Maybe you agree we shouldn't use names for the Romani or Jewish people as idiom for being cheated
All good and admirable, but
when I meet someone from the States and say I'm Italian, it usually ends up like this
https://www.alessandravita.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/italian-hand-gesture.jpg https://www.alessandravita.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12...
or this
https://static1.thegamerimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Mario-Italy.jpg https://static1.thegamerimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uplo...
or with a combo
https://preview.redd.it/italian-stereotypes-starter-pack-v0-srgn6w00mlv91.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=f4a923864e9079b95dc51182e5129fc0e2b6e73b https://preview.redd.it/italian-stereotypes-starter-pack-v0-...
It's not the words or the metaphors, it's the people!
If someone wants to use words against someone else, they'll find a way, no matter what.
Policing words is fascist, if anything, police people bad behaviour, actually, police how your society works and start investigating why you you masterfully created, nourished and spread to the World so many cultural stereotypes about everyone who is not you and doesn't want to be like you!
They talk to us about you, it's not the words you use, but *how* you use them.
Try to understand that thinking "you person of color -> you bad" it's not any better than thinking "you [n word] -> you bad".
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