Comment on Glad to see Lemmy users appreciating diversity

• pyff@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • Pyroglyph@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Exactly right, but the context being discussed is porn.

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      • Pyroglyph@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yes, but you’ve also said that referring to people as “black” is dehumanising, and then you were asked what word you’d use instead. At this moment it isn’t unreasonable to think the context has changed from porn community titles to your personal thoughts on how to refer to a specific ethnic group in any situation.
        That’s how I (and I assume many others) read the situation.

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    • DokPsy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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      • Stinkywinks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah because the majority of blacks use reddit and ebony porn sites. So do you call them ebonies?

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• paddirn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    but thats what it says

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    • troglodytis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Read it again.

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      • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        black gone wild, blacks gone wild, what’s the difference? just a single letter? how is one respectful and the other not?

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