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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?

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I think one key commonality that most of the examples you linked to is that the person in question is a powerful/wealthy male. While I get where you're coming from, I still think it's deeply sus to use that word in this context.

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        "I'm sorry black person, I just assumed that you haven't consumed much media in which 'monkey' is a fun or positive word. 'Fun like a barrel of monkeys', the Monkees, 'monkeying around' and Curious George are all examples of positive use of the term.

        Therefore, when the writer of the article said 'George Floyd is a monkey he actually meant..."

          • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            If my response seems hostile to you, have you asked yourself why an Asian person might respond in a way that seems hostile to "well you and all the other Asians just don't understand words"? Might this be shit that's pulled out regularly by westoids to dismiss and minimize the concerns of Asian people living in the West, regardless of their level of English comprehension.

            I shouldn't need to explain to you that words can be contextually offensive when applied to certain groups of people. If someone published an article calling a grown black man "boy", it proves nothing to show me articles where young men of other races have been called "boy".

              • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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                2 years ago

                I am not making any statements that “minimize the concerns of Asian people living in the West, regardless of their level of English comprehension” or making any statements about “their level of English comprehension” just bc you and people on twitter don’t do crosswords and read a lot of literature / the new yorker does not mean that that

                Wow.

                Who do I talk to about making this one of the site headings? Because...

                Wow.

                  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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                    2 years ago

                    If you go back and read my responses to you, I began with an explanation of my position. Then the next post said "I see where you're coming from but I think it's deeply sus in this context". In both cases you just doubled down on your position that I just don't understand the word because I don't do crosswords or whatever.

                    Edit: The disengage part of above user's reply was not there when I started writing this comment. Mods, please feel free to remove this if you think it's appropriate.

          • forcequit [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            It literally denotes the head/authority of the group/family, idgi

            • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              Well yeah, so do you think the tweet author talked to the victim's friends and family and they all agreed that he was the head of the family and authority figure, or do you think that the writer just assumed that he's the head of the family because he's a dude and Asian?

              Like what if he was really progressive and listened to his wife on everything and only did things by consensus? What if his household was actually like many "traditional" East Asian households and his wife controlled all the finances and had final say on all family matters?

              Just a weird as fuck assumption to make about a shooting victim.

            • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              it means male head of the family. A woman in the same position would be a matriarch and English doesn't have a gender neutral word for head of the family.