Black people denigrating blacker people, Indians denigrating darker Indians, and so on. Yeah, we’re tribal, evolved that way.
These people all bent over the word “race”. Meh. Give it a rest. The word used to be in common parlance, now I never here it IRL, despite being told us Southerners are the most racist people on Earth.
Maeve@kbin.earth 3 weeks ago
I'm in the deep south and I hear it a lot, from every race.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
People use the word “race” in conversation? Hard to get my head around! Not doubting you, but we don’t talk like that. OTOH, we’re seriously race (heh) mixed in NW Florida. My block is a nearly perfect cross-section of black, white, Asian demographics for the area. LOL, my wife being the 1% Asian rep. :)
No Hispanic folk, but they were really rare before 2004. No joke, there were hardly any Mexican restaurants before they flooded in to save us from the destruction.
Maeve@kbin.earth 3 weeks ago
Maybe you're so used to it, you don't notice. Or maybe it's said in other ways, eg, "Certain races do this thing or think that way." Or maybe it's more subtle, "That's just their culture." "That's just how their people are."
It's also maddening when discussing medical issues. "Why does my race have to be brought into it?” "Because certain ethnicities have problems with this particular medical condition moreso than others." "Because I'm more susceptible to x and I can't do y with you."
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No! Don’t even hear the subtle shit anymore. Which is both weird and heartening. I get the feel that people who wish to speak like that don’t say it to me. I’m pretty redneck in certain contexts, maybe the long hair makes then shy? :)
OTOH hand, I rarely get the impression that I’m being “felt out”. Only time that happens is when someone wishes to express a liberal view. :)
And yeah, I get the medicine thing. And yeah, we need to talk genetic history! My first wife was a pale redhead, notorious folks for pain-killer resistance. OTOH, we got medical professionals who think black people don’t feel pain as whites do, stuff like that. What a mess.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
south of what?
Maeve@kbin.earth 3 weeks ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_South