Permanently Deleted
- south park "f-slur doesn't mean gay people"
- animemes "t-slur doesn't mean trans people"
- "why can't I n-slur if it's in a hip-hop song, they use it"
- "g-slur doesn't refer to Romani, it's just what you say"
- "my amerikkkan football team is tradition"
liberalism brain“why can’t I n-slur if it’s in a hip-hop song, they use it”
[Insert that one scene from Sorry To Bother You here]
There is honestly a lot more that can be said about slur discourse and non-marginalized enjoyment of marginalized people's stories/media/culture, but maybe here and now isn't the best time.
Here and now is on-topic and seems like a relevant place to expand upon the discourse. Or save up for an !effort@hexbear.net post or something.
Hi mom, I'm in the screenshot!
I lose faith in humanity every day. When we added a rule in my chatroom that prohibited people from using normalized ableist slurs, huge arguments broke out and many people had to be removed. All because it inconvenienced them slightly to not make several other members feel dehumanized.
I can't even get my own family to stop using several slurs.
When we added a rule in my chatroom that prohibited people from using normalized ableist slurs, huge arguments broke out and many people had to be removed.
Similar things happened here on hexbear over the year or so after we launched. People who couldn't be assed to do a modicum of self crit blew up for several days and were banned/left and all that remained were the actual cool people who were capable of marginally changing their language and respecting others. Purges like that are a pain to deal with in the moment but absolutely necessary to maintain a healthy site culture.
I can't even get my own family to stop using several slurs.
i offer a service you may be interested in
It took us about 200 years to make white people stop saying the N word in public. We succeeded only somewhat. They're very bitter about it still, and they're not going to give up other slurs without a fight.
I'm an expert on white people and this is really messed up to make fun of. They get very distressed if you don't allow them to say slurs. Not cool.
can anglos create a single motherfucking word that isn't racist, jesus christ
"Slurs are punk/cyberpunk"
The people using slurs in anything punk are the bad ones who get
.Rice doesn't bother me
Let me guess, the closest thing guy has ever gotten to talking to an Asian person is playing an anime dating sim.
This is the same argument kids used to make for saying fggot. It's just "the intent is different so it's ok". It's bullshit and the fggot comparison should be made every time.
"uh how is this referring to asians? obviously it's just referring to japanese cars and how tacky they are i mean wait hold on."
by their logic, the (mostly) scottish slang for a chinese takeaway is not actually racist because it isn't "used in a racist manner"
it's literally the slur beginning with ch btw
i didnt make the connections with that, in the south 90% of convenience stores are managed by Chinese people, paquistani people, arab peope or south american.The chinese people being the first people that started, When i say that i didnt mean it in a racist way
I felt that calling them Chinos fed into racist tropes that the goods sold by Chinese people, and by extension the people themselves are poor quality, cheap and 'found on every corner'.
Yes, that is sadly common. I will re-evaluate on how i speak. Thank you for the external perspective. <3
Hey thank you so much for like, actually going at people in that thread, along with all the other excellent posters of hexbear.
To be entirely honest, I made that post while I was waiting on some stuff to finish at work. I was browsing all, saw a unix porn post, and got reminded of that shitty term. I once made a similar post in the old
r/unixporn, but you can guess what the response was there. When I got home I found my inbox was absolutely blown out. I had to choose between wading into the already considerable thread, or playing a jrpg all evening with my partner, and I chose the latter. I appreciate everyone backing me up after I kinda bailed once the pin was pulled 
I bet 5/6 of your fake internet points are from other hexbears who upvote anything from hexbears because they agree racism is bad
Also, my personal absolute favorite post in the thread is this hidden gem everyone else has just kinda passed by:
Show
Oh shit I use that word at all the time and didn't know.
Why does
even think "hey guess what, you eat RICE!" is an own in the first place? How did that become a slur?Same way that be*ner is used
"Hey these mfs are always eating rice/beans!"
I'm eating beans and rice right now and you can't stop me
At least calling Americans "burgers" has some bite to it because burgers are unhealthy fast food.
Tea drinkers for Brits? Doesn't really do anything.
What about Aussies is there anything for them? Vegemite eaters?It's fundamentally harder to hurt rich white people because the power dynamics are different.
The punch hits harder going downwards rather than upwards.What about Aussies is there anything for them? Vegemite eaters?
don't have one on food, but as @Trudge@lemmygrad.ml eluded to, we have one based on being "lower class whites" - convicts
it's not even a slur, but yanks and brits try to use it as an insult as it is an attempt to punch down. as you think about it more, it really is crouched in white supremacy because the only thing people throw at us is that we should be insulted for our genocidal shithole being a prison colony
I know this is mostly a dunk but to seriously answer the question, slurs have never made any logical sense.
For example, the slur "negr*" just means "black" in Spanish and saying that someone is "black" in English isn't even generally offensive. However, the slur is still definitely racist and offensive.
No, not at all. Its genuinely funny that racists think about this shit all the time and this type of weak ass slur is the best they can come up with.
me and the boys working overtime at the racism factory putting the finishing touches on our newest masterpiece, apple eater
Me and the boys' dismay as bossman reviews our work and says that we've strayed into the Sexism Factory's department.
uh, american pickups/"trucks" (it's a fucking ute ffs) are starting to be pretty widely called "yank tanks" in australia and widely derided - sometimes deliberately scratched up
not downplaying the racism of the r*cer term, but anti-kkkrackoid sentiment is starting to spread
based baby suzukis
the Ute being an australian automotive cultural touchstone and something we use to fiercely shit on yankoids for is a weird one, might be worth an effortpost sometime
It looks weird to me though, as I actually am regularly around pickups that are meant to get dirty, so i see “car in front, flatbed in back” and get confused thinking of a regular car with construction site level dust everywhere
That first ever Oz ute from 1934 is a look. Running boards wide as surfboards, rear-hinged doors.
Buddy, i dont know how you thought “rice rocket” wasnt a term thrown with specific hard feelings in mind. Just because a halfassed reclamation could be said to have been done in the early to mid 00s doesnt mean it wasnt used with the ethnicity of car manufacturer or oftentimes it’s driver in mind.
What a weird thing to say... The world isn't the US yk. Japanese and Korean cars weren't that common even as late as the 80-s. Weird reclamation. People started using the term in the early odds...
"Rice rocket" is aking to calling American cars "Cracker cars".
Or even worse "N*gger wagons"
You are condensing their entire existence into "the people who eat rice" like it is no big deal.
Proud of Blashork and the other antiracists in that thread. I don’t know enough about the Linux culture to comment but appreciate seeing pushback against racism
For what its worth, my dad was a huge MOPAR guy. Like, big time Detroit loyalist. His whole life and career had been spent restoring muscle cars. His shop had a metal poster on the wall that said something like "screw JDM, buy domestic" but much much more racist. He used ricer all the time, and absolutely as a pejorative, as the word was intended. Doesn't really matter how "sanitized" it has since become.
TLDR; The only context I have for the term "ricer" is my extremely racist father, and that's enough for me to know the word should be retired.
At least where I was, there were basically zero black people, the"N" word here was (typically but not exclusively) used is rap music and movies...
If I go any further, this gets so offensive to the point where censoring it is not sufficient.
I was really wondering why that term was being used in these posts. It definitely seemed problematic on first glance. Importing Car Culture BS into UI customization discussions is just not a vibe I want to be around.
"chief, we are SO sorry. we really thought we had something here!"
