Like if a farmer, who is Black - they are not uncommon - says their white friends shouldn't refer to them working in the fields, or even a Black culture scholar or ANYONE I can be sure isn't just repeating stuff they heard from the Discourse Mill, fine. I'll eat my words
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And that is significantly less fungible with other things that can be said! …Which means one question worth it is “so why rephrase”, especially when we already know there were other false reports of “verbatim” quotes (cheers)
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Because if that one’s common and it’s provable that for this -and- the Double Trouble thing people consistently reported different word-for-word statements /as the potentially-innocuous alleged original quote/ than were said, that’s evidence
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I mean, I really, really would never have thought to even question if that was an okay thing to say. My extended family's from the deep south and I've overheard racist conversations, and I'm not gonna repeat them but there's certain farm activities they associate w black people
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But not tilling fields I really didn't want to wade into this. I suppose I'm out of my lane, but the lanes are being redirected by hostile forces and I'm trying to point that out
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notably, tilling the fields is the thing you do for the sake of sowing the seeds, and is therefore the right choice for the pun name of Bow’s farming brother. literally none of the joke is premised on or requires race to work. it works *exactly the same* if Sow is white.
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This is why I say it’s at worst a faux pas, like using the word for miserly that has been largely deprecated because it “sounds wrong.” It’s not that that word, or that the joke, are racist. It’s that someone might infer racism from them and so one walks carefully.
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