I know, and that is precisely what worries me!
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Perhaps this is also why I feel disharmony in how Esther and I view & talk about ‘labels’, when they come up in discussion. I have a qualitatively different history and relationship to labels and to ppl rejecting them, because of being an otherwise invisible minority.
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I agree with you. Our, my and yours, lives are shaped but the lack of and the discovery of labels.
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That’s why I asked which labels are meant. Take eg ‘homo’, it’s considered a slur in NL, and used as such. I had a discussion with my kids. Even they understand it is not a slur. The problem is that homophobe ppl think it is.
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Same with "black" racists think black is a bad word.
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A cringeworthy example is when white Americans refer to all black people, most of whom don’t live in US, “African American”
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Yeah, racists in Russia do that too. In this show they kept calling Reggie African American and they categorically stated that it was because "otherwise we have to call you a n-".
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*cisnormative, etc., etc.
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