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Like damn the dude and most of his family were killed in a mass shooting, did you really need to orientalize him on the way out?

    • wwiehtnioj [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      I don't know if it is orientalist but at the very least it is normalizing patriarchy so I agree the word father should be used instead.

    • NoYouLogOff [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Patriarch is a really weird term because you're either talking specifically about patriarchy, or you are talking about organizations like the mob. China had it's feudal clans. Calling a guy who was just a father "The clan head" would be really fucking weird and is ascribing feudal structures to a normal Asian family. Calling a normal Italian man who died a patriarch would be weird for the same reason.