Comment on All political views should end with the word boy in a southern voice.
Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days agoYeah, I thought this was common knowledge. Growing up mixed in the southeast (Tenn, Georgia,SC and NC areas), it was used daily to get my attention.
sxan@midwest.social 3 days ago
I think most non-Southerners’ exposure to it is in media, where it’s almost always racist in context. There’s a surprising amount of subtly in Southern social interactions that I think it’s missing from most of the US. Sure, Midwesterners are known for raising passive-aggressiveness to an art form, but you recognize it no matter where you’re from.
The subtly in social interactions in the South are truly exceptional, hard to get a handle on, and unmatched anywhere else in the US - IMHO. Southerners have as many ways of being condescending as Eskimos have words for snow.
Is that phrase still acceptable, or is the Eskimo/snow comment now not PC? Is it still OK to use the term “Eskimo?” If the Eskimo thing is offensive, I sincerely apologize. An alternative would be “as North-westerners have words for rain,” but I don’t know if that’s as widely understood an idiom.
Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
That’s why my main point still stands. You know where someone stands the way they say it. I could greet you or disrespect you, all depends in my tone.
sxan@midwest.social 3 days ago
Thank you!
And: dude! I have totally thought the same thing! It’s so weird that Mastodon has follow-accounts, but no communities; Lemmy has join-communities but no follow-accounts; and they’re both ActivityPub. You’d think that would be a no-brainer feature, right?
Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
Maybe someone will cook it up. Wish I had the know how to do it.