Comment on Glad to see Lemmy users appreciating diversity

MBM@lemmings.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• SRo@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No

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  • pyff@lemmynsfw.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, it is.

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• stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  what word would you use instead?

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  • pyff@lemmynsfw.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ebony, or GoneWildColor as the existing reddit community was already named.

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    • Pyroglyph@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Calling black people “ebony” is like calling white people “porcelain”. It’s romanticising their skin colour. It may make sense for things like porn, but please don’t refer to any group with that sort of name in a normal context. It’s incredibly weird.

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      • pyff@lemmynsfw.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Exactly right, but the context being discussed is porn.

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      • DokPsy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I believe you’ll find that it’s Ebony and Ivory. … Side by side in perfect harmony

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    • Stinkywinks@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Pretty sure they prefer black like native Americans prefer Indians. Can we call people white? I’ve never heard anyone wants to be called ebony. I only know the term ebony from porn

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      • pyff@lemmynsfw.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “Pretty sure they”… Nope, I’ll stop you right there.

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  • paddirn@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “African-Americans Gone Wild” or "People of Color Gone Wild " just don’t seem to have the same ring to it, I guess. I’m pretty sure almost any other term you might use would be frowned upon.

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    • ShrimpsIsBugs@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not all black people are African-American or even African or American, you know? I’d be way more irritated if someone called me African-American than black, since one of these is true and the other simply isn’t.

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      • paddirn@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, that’s why I added the “People of Color Gone Wild”, since the other isn’t really all-inclusive. Race is so weird to talk about in the US though, it’s like no matter how you talk about it as a white person, you’re stepping on somebody’s toes somewhere. It’s like we can’t even discuss anything without the terminology itself becoming an issue, which just sort of derails any other conversations you might be having. I get why the topic is necessary in some cases, but it feels like it needlessly complicated things at times.

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  • MBM@lemmings.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just black, as in “the black version of gonewild”

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    • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      but thats what it says

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      • troglodytis@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Read it again.

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• Metanoia@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I suppose it depends on context.

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