The tech billionaire was accused of making the Nazi salute at a rally for President Donald Trump.
  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    My take is this: Even if we’re being charitable, saying it was unintentional, and I think it may have been enthusiasm, that “word” was still in his “vocabulary”.

    People that don’t say N***** in casual conversation don’t suddenly bust out with it. I don’t come out with S*** when talking about Hispanic people, because I never use that word. Ever. Same with G*** for the Vietnamese. Those are words I understand, but do not use. Ever.

    I’ll be the last to police conversation and vocabulary, downvotes online and ostracization IRL should be enough, and I think it’s become seriously nuts the last decade, but he’s “speaking” the language he’s accustomed to, plain as day.

    • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      4 days ago

      Exactly. If someone pops out the n word at all, they’ve said it before, often enough that it’s a habit they normally suppress.

      A nazi salute is the same thing.

      • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        4 days ago

        Yup. Tbh, there’s slurs for pretty much any ethnic group other than a small range of what gets called “wasps”, the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. They’re not the only ones that use slurs, but there’s a surprising lack of them directed towards them. And none that carry any weight as a slur, if you want to include generic terms for white folks like honkey.

        There’s even slurs for ostensibly white folks from wrong ancestry, though how much weight they have is fairly low and tends to be regional.

        Ain’t it a great world we live in?