Thanks for the clarification. I'd only ever seen the term used as an inter- (rather than intra-) racial term, and as such it always sounded really nasty. Now that I think about it, the term "Oreo" isn't seen as super offensive, but it clearly developed as slang the same way that nickname for a crafty animal did.
Without looking at your profile, it would have been very hard to tell on its own whether the comment was punching down or punching up.
Maybe if I wasn't such a cocoa-butter crême fraiche praline I would have had a familiarity with the other usage. But I think you definitely made a positive addition to the discourse.
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Thanks for the clarification. I'd only ever seen the term used as an inter- (rather than intra-) racial term, and as such it always sounded really nasty. Now that I think about it, the term "Oreo" isn't seen as super offensive, but it clearly developed as slang the same way that nickname for a crafty animal did.
Without looking at your profile, it would have been very hard to tell on its own whether the comment was punching down or punching up.
Maybe if I wasn't such a cocoa-butter crême fraiche praline I would have had a familiarity with the other usage. But I think you definitely made a positive addition to the discourse.