is it now racist to say that? I've never considered it to be but maybe I should avoid it. What say you?
is it now racist to say that? I've never considered it to be but maybe I should avoid it. What say you?
Dark Continent
Everything depends on context. In this case, what is your intent?
To place a victorian story about Imperialism and colonialization/Tarzan meets Jane type of story and reference the "Dark Continent" would imho not be racist. You are setting the tone for the time.
Can you give us the context of how you intend to use it?
Far future, nighttime, flying over Africa.
"I was watching out the window as below us the Dark Continent passed by... err, rather darkly."
No real context other then a throw-away joke sentence.
Henry Stanley gave Africa that name in the late 1800s because it was mostly unknown. It had nothing to do with the color of the people. But today someone would call you a racist for saying it because to them everyone is a racist.
everyone is a racist.
No, you can't be a racist if you're black, Asian, or Latino. Only whites are racist.
Note that I'm doing an assortment of studying on this from the perspective of someone not from Earth in the book currently posted on here. This is a quote from Chapter 18, that just got posted on here:
He finally said, "End zone to end zone, eh? I know you're from Kansas. You have any issues throwing the ball to Jeff?"
"Only if he drops it. I finished high school with a one hundred percent pass completion rate. Don't worry, I know what you're implying. Coach, one of my girlfriends is Indigenous Australian. Her skin tone is a lot darker than Jeff's. One of my girlfriends is Mexican, she's browner than Mark. Of course, he's fake Japanese, too, so I don't know if he counts. Sayel is Pakistani; so are three of my body servants, with the other five being from India."
No, you can't be a racist if you're black, Asian, or Latino. Only whites are racist.
It doesn't matter what the subject is, the woke crowd can make it racist.
The premise that only whites can be racist is racist itself.
I saw a woke Twitter* account complaining that the term Dark Ages was racist. Also apparently the terms Wu Flu & Chinese virus are also racist. I wonder what they think of the Black Death & Yellow Fever. Also the test for Scarlet Fever immunity is the Dick Test. Is that sexist?
*Yes my IQ was damaged.
Do you reckon a woke would consider a story set in the Dark Ages racist?
Yes.
It is really f'n irritating as well. Most of those idiots have no idea what actual racism is. They've never witnessed it, nor experienced it either.
Henry Stanley gave Africa that name in the late 1800s because it was mostly unknown. It had nothing to do with the color of the people. But today someone would call you a racist for saying it because to them everyone is a racist.
I have run into that myself.
I once got called in by the CO because I had said somebody was "Niggardly". Thankfully he understood what I said given the context, and simply told me to not use that word again as some were to stupid to understand words of longer than 6 letters.
And I have heard others get upset over calling "a spade a spade".
If somebody is the type that wants to get upset over every little thing, there is absolutely nothing you can do about it other than talking like a moron around them, with the most simple words possible.
Everything is racist
If you run lots of races, you are a racist. It has become the superlative of "race". Race, racer, racist.
Everything is racist to the sensitive ear.
There have been complaints about the use of 'The Black Country', a region of England.
AJ
The term Black Country came about during the industrial revolution when there were lots of small ironworks during coal. This resulted in dirty, smokey atmosphere and blackened houses and buildings.
Everything is racist to the sensitive ear.
Apparently some ears are so sensitive that there is no room left between them for a brain…
Apparently some ears are so sensitive that there is no room left between them for a brain…
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