thanks for bringing awareness to this, now that i’m informed i should not use these terms because that’d make me a bigot instead of ignorant.

a lot of everyday words or even slang can be described as offensive or racist if the listener deems them this way - or because the history of certain words is rooted in racism.

you wanna tell the whole linux community that “ricing” is an offensive term?

you wanna tell marxists that quote “it’s either socialism or barbarism” that the term “barbarian” is a racist term used by romans?

you wanna tell polish boomers that they shouldn’t say “a jew hung himself” to refer to windy weather?

a miniscule amount of people think about the racial or xenophobic implications because certain things are too ingrained in society.

keep the spirit up, you go guys, but these things won’t go away for the next few generations.

stuff like this just fuels infighting with no real goal. - fighting actual racism and systemic racism. getting hung up on unimportant details will just alienate people who’d be sympathetic to the cause.

we also likely live in different societies so we have different approaches to how racism is perceived. this discourse reeks of being american.

everyone will feel offended at anything you say.

nice example of a philippino person being offended by it.

if i told my philippino friend abt it he’d dismiss these concerns.

different strokes for different folks.

bottom line: playing word police is problematic in itself.

just don’t be a dick and you’re good.

I started reading Blackshirts and Reds (finally) and so far it´s pretty good and insightful. It gives a coherent explaination to thoughts and questions i had about the topic of fascism.