pyff

@pyff@lemmynsfw.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Glad to see Lemmy users appreciating diversity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you under the impression that race and nationality are equivalent? If you’re asking whether the term is considered dehumanizing, that’s been answered for you, and if you’re asking why, that’s been answered as well. In English, racial and ethnic terms are generally used as adjectives, and we don’t use adjectives as nouns when referring to groups of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Glad to see Lemmy users appreciating diversity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s far more acceptable than “blacks”. It also avoids the issue of associating general search terms for groups of people with sexualized contexts as has unfortunately been done to Asian women and others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Glad to see Lemmy users appreciating diversity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, generally referring to groups of people as pluralized adjectives is considered dehumanizing.

  Note that Blacks and the Blacks are both considered offensive and should not be used. Black people is the preferred plural form of Black.

  www.archives.gov/research/catalog/…/black-person

  [A]im to use Black as an adjective, not a noun. Also, when describing a group, use Black people instead of just “Blacks.”

  nabjonline.org/news-media-center/styleguide/#styl…

  This is for the exact same reason you would not refer to a singular Black person as “a black”. If you still have trouble recognizing the issue, consider how jarring the term “a gay” would seem in print.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Glad to see Lemmy users appreciating diversity⁩ ⁨⁨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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Glad to see Lemmy users appreciating diversity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not exactly sure what you’re asking, but no, collective nouns aren’t generally pluralized in English, nor is the term appropriate outside of a porn context. Are you a native English speaker?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Glad to see Lemmy users appreciating diversity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly right, but the context being discussed is porn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Glad to see Lemmy users appreciating diversity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Glad to see Lemmy users appreciating diversity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Glad to see Lemmy users appreciating diversity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

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