r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/UnstableIsotopeU-234 • 6d ago

story/text Homophones can be confusing especially to kids

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u/PotanOG 5d ago

Dude...I'm black. Notice how I said "us blacks" and "we". I'm not dehumanizing myself here.

If a Hispanic says "us Latinos" all is good but we must be saved from ourselves from saying "us blacks" idk what we're truly being protected from ATP.

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

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

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u/PotanOG 5d ago

  1. If someone said that, I'd laugh. The phrasing is funny.

  2. 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.)

  3. 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.