This would be a quick way to see of itβs racist, close minded, or just straight bs.
Ex1- You want women to kill babies, boy!
Ex2- You want to feed the homeless, boy!
I say, I say, you need to seize the means of production, boy.
I started with a Bernie Mac in Life voice but now it sounds like Farmer Fran in Waterboy.
Has been stuck in my head for 10mins. Just using boy with everything. Let get the door for you, I say boy.
Itβs always demeaning. Calling a full-grown man of any race βboyβ is belittling them. Yes, thereβs a special racist association, but itβs been used as much on white men. The female equivalent might be βlittle girl.β
βWhat do you think youβre doing, little girl?β
It might have the same effect as simply βgirlβ if said the right way, but βgirlβ has been more normalized and sexualized, so itβs a little different.
Anyway, the terms are belittling, and therefore demeaning, regardless of race. The point of using them is to position yourself over that person, as a parent over a child; itβs shorthand for saying they are beneath you.
Yeah, I thought this was common knowledge. Growing up mixed in the southeast (Tenn, Georgia,SC and NC areas), it was used daily to get my attention.
I think most non-Southernersβ exposure to it is in media, where itβs almost always racist in context. Thereβs a surprising amount of subtly in Southern social interactions that I think itβs missing from most of the US. Sure, Midwesterners are known for raising passive-aggressiveness to an art form, but you recognize it no matter where youβre from.
The subtly in social interactions in the South are truly exceptional, hard to get a handle on, and unmatched anywhere else in the US - IMHO. Southerners have as many ways of being condescending as Eskimos have words for snow.
Is that phrase still acceptable, or is the Eskimo/snow comment now not PC? Is it still OK to use the term βEskimo?β If the Eskimo thing is offensive, I sincerely apologize. An alternative would be βas North-westerners have words for rain,β but I donβt know if thatβs as widely understood an idiom.
Thatβs why my main point still stands. You know where someone stands the way they say it. I could greet you or disrespect you, all depends in my tone.
Bro, great posting! πππππ @sxan@midwest.social
They need a βfollow accountsβ button here. Like if a reporter used !worldnews@lemmy.ml you could just follow the reporter.
I laughed when I read it, and I read the examples in the right accent, but I really donβt see how it makes a difference.
I want none of that pineapple on my pizza, boy!
it doesnβt work, boy!
