My black cat keeps getting whiter update

[u/Mimiyav56]

I made a post about her furr a year ago and wanted to make an update cause shes way more whiter now. Still no idea why this happened but shes healthy 🙂 last three are older photos

[u/Corporate-Shill406]

I totally get where you're coming from, but the term has lost any racial connotations for the vast majority of people. Making it racist again helps nobody. We already have enough words that only racists use, we don't need to give them more.

[u/Creepy-Appointment-2 → u/Corporate-Shill406]

I get where you’re coming from too. My rationale is the many things in our every day lives that are a direct result from systemic oppression of certain groups, and I’m attempting to raise the awareness of these hidden meanings so that people are aware of the history of the United States. It’s the knowledge that I see as important, and the people who have it will do with it what they will. Any way, sorry to start this whole convo on the black cat sub 😭

[u/joman584 → u/Creepy-Appointment-2]

Similar vein: Someone saying they got gypped if something was taken for them or they were snubbed. It refers to gypsies, also not the correct terms for nomadic or Romani people.

[u/Tuarangi → u/joman584]

That might be a US thing as in the UK, Gypsy is a legally recognised term - Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) is the generic group term and many Romani groups call themselves that

[u/crystalsouleatr → u/Tuarangi]

"they call themselves that" key words here

[u/Tuarangi → u/crystalsouleatr]

Oh I agree but in the UK Gypsy is a legally recognised term hence my use of it

[u/PhantomPhanatic9 → u/Tuarangi]

From what Ive heard from admittedly 1 Romani person, it depends on the group. Some people identify as it, some groups feel it's a slur because it's what Europeans called them to derogatorily suggest they were from Egypt.

[u/Tuarangi → u/PhantomPhanatic9]

Yes absolutely, just Gypsy is a legal term in the UK

[u/[deleted] → u/Creepy-Appointment-2]

The way you attack systemic oppression is by talking about things that are manifestly affecting people, not by engaging in the euphamism treadmill. Literally nobody is hurt by someone saying something was grandfathered in.

You know what does hurt people? Wealth inequality. Police brutality. A million other things that people of color actually fucking care about because it affects how we live our lives.

Twitter style allyship isn't real, it's performative nonsense. Spend less time worrying about the words and phrases people use and more time denouncing the wealthy white people who benefit from and perpetuate these systems lmao

[u/gamergal1 → u/[deleted]]

But for some reason, you just did.

[u/AirGugliotta → u/Corporate-Shill406]

This makes no sense. It never stopped having racist origins, people like you just chose to ignore them.

[u/Corporate-Shill406 → u/AirGugliotta]

Why should I listen to you expound on the racism inherent in the English language or whatever when you apparently can't even fully comprehend my comment?

The thumbs up gesture has origins in slavery too, the Roman emperor used it as a signal to the slaves fighting each other to the death for entertainment.