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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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  - pyff@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    Yes, but you’ve also said that referring to people as “black” is dehumanising
    
    No. Myself, and the commenter who was being responded to, said that referring to Black people as “blacks” is dehumanizing, which it is, and the context being asked for was an alternative term for an NSFW community. Hopefully that clarifies the issue.
    
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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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