[ SECRET POST #2980 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2980 ⌋

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Notes:

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Comments

Re: Your get off my lawn! moments

[(Anonymous)]

Some lingo today that is acceptable. The most prominent being "queer". Growing up queer was a pretty bad slur to call someone who was gay. But these days it is used as an accepted term. Unfortunately, that will be one of those things I'll never feel comfortable using.

Re: Your get off my lawn! moments

[(Anonymous)]

Er... not even when people deliberately use it as a way to reclaim the word for themselves?

Re: Your get off my lawn! moments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't care when people use it to describe themselves, but it does bother me that so many people use it as a catch-all term. It's not the kind of thing you call someone without their explicit consent.

Re: Your get off my lawn! moments

[nyxelestia]

I have this problem with "POC". I spent most of my life having it drilled into my that referring to human beings as "colored" was something nasty racist people did, so even if I know that it's a reclamation thing now, my knee-jerk reaction to hearing "People/Women/Actors/whatever of Color" is "That's Racist!"

The only reason I can deal with 'POC' is because I literally just sound it out as pee-oh-see in my head and just do not think about what words the acronym stands for, only the 'thing'/people it's meant to refer to.

Re: Your get off my lawn! moments

[(Anonymous)]

I have that issue with POC too.

Even today, use of the term "colored" is considered a slur, so it's difficult to get my head around POC being okay.

The way I reconcile it is that calling someone "colored" is a passive thing others foist on that person, while "person of color" is putting the emphasis on the person who happens to be of color. It's more active, it's not as dehumanizing, and something about it turns the derogatory into a simple descriptor. IDK, I still don't feel totally comfortable with it, but I can feel a difference between the two even if I can't quite pinpoint it.

Re: Your get off my lawn! moments

[(Anonymous)]

THIS

Re: Your get off my lawn! moments

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder if this is regional or a generation before me, because I'm 30 and no one ever used "queer" barring the few times in english class they'd read it in a novel and giggle.