If you use the word “slaps” you’re not talking to the population as a whole, you’re talking to specific people. And likely ones who already agree with your point.
Are you saying black people should use white vernacular when advocating for their equality?
Non-slang is not “white”, or even American. Drag should understand the difficulty caused when drag invents terminology that needs to be explained to any outgroup who can’t be expected to be familiar with words drag has only popularised recently. Doesn’t drag think that if anything it’s kind of exclusionary against second-language speakers?
Drag doesn’t believe in slang. All words used to be “slang”. It’s meaningless.
Anyone offended by history needs to reflect on their priorities and identity.
I’m not offended that white people claimed this land at the point of a sword, and even worse, in the embrace of a smallpox blanket. Horrified, yes, but not offended. I’m not offended that the backbone of the economy for a hundred years was built on the backs of stolen people on stolen land.
I’m not offended by history.
What I am offended by is the present. I’m offended that people who have been oppressed and started out life with less than nothing have been told by the privileged elite to “pull themselves up by their own bootstraps like the rest of us did”. That’s fucking vile. I’m offended that we keep trying to whitewash confederate slave owning generals, instead of teaching who they really were, and what they really killed for, and ordered other people to die for. Be offended about what we are doing now, and use history as the reason why we should change it.
It’s incredibly jarring to have the burden of knowledge while others revel in their own ignorance. As a minority and a former Marine, I am deeply ashamed and disappointed in my fellow Americans.
Reminds me when Morgan Freeman said he didn’t want a Black History Month, I immediately went like “dude, shut the f*** up”.
Surely he was just saying ‘All history is our history. Why would you relegate it to a month and label it?’ He’s allowed to feel aggrieved as it does feel like apportioning it to something lesser, like ‘Here,have the short month then shut up about it.’
