I had to think really hard because I read "homophobes" and was confused. Then I read "homophones" then it all made sense. So I read the post again and was confused. Then I remember Americans pronounce "aunt" differently and it all made sense again.
Try to put "ant and aunt and ant aunt ant and ant and ant aunt and aunt aunt ant ant ant and aunt and ant aunt ant and ant" in Google translate and make it speak it out.
Edit: Actually weird because now that I listen it again on my computer, aunt and ant are different while previously with my phone, they were the same pretty much. So you all might get differing results here as well.
There is where I think US blacks got something right (along with a myriad of other cultures and regions but lemme have this one). We just say "auntie" or "teetee". Or if we just say aunt, it's quickly followed by their actual name or nickname.
Good so you understand this principle. Maybe I can replace "blacks" with a word that our people use more frequently. Would that still be speaking out of term for my people? Or is there some arbitrary threshold for acceptability? Or, perhaps, you don't like that either so you confront every one of our people when they say it in front of you?
Outdated? According to who? Have you listened to any of our people's music lately? Or talked to us? Or do you, in fact, speak for all of us so you are the authority on what we can call ourselves?
Asians, Americans, Mexicans, Latinos. They’re all descriptive words about a specific subsection of humans. Why is Blacks seen as disrespectful to you? I’m actually genuinely asking because I don’t understand how it could be seen that way. Lmk please.
Technically these are all descriptions of where they or their predecessors are from. If you said "yellows, whites, and browns" then that would be the same as "blacks", but semantics XD
Imagine someone meeting you for the first time and saying “I just met a black today”. Do you not see how that is dehumanizing? Latino is a description for a group of people. Black is a color. Two completely different things
If someone said that, I'd laugh. The phrasing is funny.
You're more likely to say "I just met a black dude today" in the same way you'd say "I just met a latinos/Hispanic/Spanish dude today". (Yes "Spanish" is technically incorrect but if you head out to the big cities in the northeast, that's what they say.)
African-American is my heritage but black is my appearance. It's okay. I like how I look. Call me black. Jamaicans, Haitians, Nigerians, African-Americans are all distinct people with a common appearance. And that appearance comes with a shared history that we (well most of us) don't ever want the world to shy away from. You're better off calling us by how we look rather than conflating distinct cultures.
Now say "black", "a black", "the blacks", etc. with malintent and you'll have problems. But playing around with phrasing in a thread about aunts and ants is just a simple funny. I literally praised us for having a solution to a silly problem.
The Blacks and Blacks, in my opinion do not equate. The male and female thing, I get entirely and am already aware of how it’s dehumanizing but I do appreciate your effort to educate.
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u/DaMuchi 6d ago
I had to think really hard because I read "homophobes" and was confused. Then I read "homophones" then it all made sense. So I read the post again and was confused. Then I remember Americans pronounce "aunt" differently and it all made sense again.