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Cake day: January 25th, 2024

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  • That’s why I keep saying banning a word or making a world “not professional” doesn’t do anything as long as people’s though doesn’t change. Like saying “don’t say black, say african American” doesn’t make them suddenly like them, they’ll still be racist. Changing words will just make them use a new word to mean the same thing.

    Yeah there might be emotional things about certain words and not wanting people to use it can be understandable. It might be a step is a direction if it’s to be less humiliating or be inclusive. But just saying “don’t use this word, use this word instead” will make the new word mean the same thing with same derogatory meaning if people use the new word derogatorily. Now DEI has become that new word, and instead of claiming the word back, owning it, people might go “don’t say DEI” and come up with a completely new acronym while trying to “heal” from the past administration.



  • I don’t know the cast system in india, but I’ve seen this sort of behavior a lot from immigrants. Specifically those that “came legally”, and hate other immigrants and think themselves superior to other immigrants and blk/ltno people here. They think they are same as wt people because they are “elite” from their area of origin. And many times they justify this racist behavior from current gov by comparing similar racist stereotypes they have from their place of origin. They just moved country, they were racist, now there are people who are racist to them, but they still look down at others instead of standing united.

    Sorry for bad abbreviation, kinda don’t wanna leave words for it to be flagged somewhere by someone in future and tracked back.