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Happenchance@lemmy.world 8 months ago“White Good, Black Bad” is a pretty easy case to win when it comes to the “should we consider changing how we speak to not look like an asshole” debate.
Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish
Happenchance@lemmy.world 8 months ago“White Good, Black Bad” is a pretty easy case to win when it comes to the “should we consider changing how we speak to not look like an asshole” debate.
Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It doesn’t seem easy to me, at all. Black/Dark also means night, shadow, invisible, while white infers light, visible, day. Lots of bad stuff happens in the shadow, and visa versa, and these themes are pretty universal throughout culture globally.
I guess globally folks are fine with referring to skincolors as white or black (which is oversimplified IMO), but locally the names of colors of the rainbow and the colors of human skins are not the same. Just like real life, because a caucasian’s skin is not colored pure white, and a dark skinned person is not colored pure black. Language brought the two closer together, skincolors and absolute color, but they are not the same. If I read all the alternatives to white and blacklist, none of them are instantly recognizable to me. That’ll happen eventually, and is not a reason to never change it. But saying black = skincolor so using the word black for bad = bad seems too simple.
Happenchance@lemmy.world 8 months ago
A whole lotta mental gymnastics going on in this thread.
Malfeasant@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Also known as thinking… I know, it’s hard.