tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]

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  • Interesting… I can see what you’re saying. My personal use of it has been to punch up and infer the white person that I call a slur as having a broken morality.

    So if we get into the bourgeoisie foundations of our day to day used language I think others, like me, keep learning new ways they’ve influenced our language and in turn ways of thinking. That said, common use of language is what defines it over time (e.g. new language is created all the time), so we can reclaim and recreate the meanings of words and phrases. But in light of what you’re pointing out, should we?

    I can see where digital blackface could be what someone sees in my language too… If I call them “white devil”, I’m of course invoking language popularized by the Black Panthers, and I do mean to do so. My purpose behind that is to convey that I’m not a friend of the concept of “whiteness” and it’s hegemonic power. Again, should I not? My thoughts when it comes to this is that I align with my class and that the language of the BPP come from class and not race. But I’m white, so I know I’m liable to have shitty blind spots. I’m trans so my focus tends to be trying to find my queer phobic blind spots first, and naturally through a white lens.

    The unintellectual lizard brain side of me also just wants something to call ruling class and their toadies something that pisses them off.



  • I mean, I really don’t like it. I’ve worked with a lot of severely disabled people and it just really grates on me. But also, I’m more in the camp of the people who it effects the most decide. But with the r-word, there’s a whole subset of people who don’t have the capacity to decide that’s not present in the other communities, so I think we should err on the side of not using it.

    Black folks can say the n-word as they please and I don’t have a right to say otherwise. If a black person doesn’t want too use that language that’s their right. So basically if you’re not black, you don’t get a pass - ever. If you are black you get to decide.

    Same sort of rules for other slurs… Except Cracker, snow roach, white devil, honkey, bleach demon, etc. Racism doesn’t exist against white people. Prejudice, sure, but not racism.