| > 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... or this https://static1.thegamerimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uplo... or with a combo 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". |
