For context, the tweet I was referencing (which was immediately hidden) equated the willful mispronunciation of a "difficult" name with literal violence. I'm less interested in picking a fight with the specific example than I am in the effectiveness of this rhetorical move.
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There's a second variation on this, which is 1. The act itself wasn't violent seen in isolation 2. But it brought harrassment to someone, or could have 3. And the performer of the act knew this would happen 4. So the act was violent
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Anyway if you mispronounce my name I will PUNCH YOU BACK, so practice
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Why doesn’t everyone with difficult names rebrand themselves as a bookmark app
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M. Pinboardski
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You might be tempted to think this is your lane, as somebody whose name is often mispronounced. But the violence here that of extant anti-Blackness, anti-Latinx, Orientalism, settler colonialism. Refusing to pronounce names properly is one among many loci of that violence.
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For people whose existence is not continually threatened to see no violence in aggressive mispronunciation of names is unsurprising, because it isn't violent /for them/. Your experience with an "unpronounceable name" is not like that of the people you're replying to.
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