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13242751, Not sure I follow. How am I moving the goal post?
Posted by Buddy_Gilapagos, Wed Mar-14-18 03:42 PM
And to be clear, my position on this topic isn't that I am anti the usage of slurs. My position is it's a slur and let's recognize it as such.

My first point in #5 regarding why I don't find the Pocahontas funny has nothing to do with it being a slur.



>>I often see how black people, or even black men more
>>specifically, engage in the same sort of behavior that I
>often
>>see white people criticized for, when blackness isn't the
>>issue (memba that black male privilege post?).
>
>I often see how individuals within *whatever* group(s) you
>want to dump them into exercise whatever you want to label as
>privilege
>
>(my definition: privilege having to do with exercising of
>power)
>
>but....
>
>you specifically (at first) selected the trifecta of:
>
>- black
>- hetero
>- male
>
>>Is that observation stereotyping?
>
>yep
>
>>If so I might be okay with
>>stereotyping sometimes.
>
>yep
>
>


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