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   Jyoti Mishra (jyoti@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 29-May-2023 23:59:43 JST Jyoti Mishra

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   • Prof Kemi FG

   @KFuentesGeorge @doot

   I got told off by a white liberal for talking about how the police have historically ignored Paki-bashing. Even though I was deliberately using the language the cops themselves use. She said I shouldn't say Paki, that I was 'internalising the racism' or some other nonsense.

   This despite it being the slur I've been called by white people since the aged of 3 and in 90% of the fights I've gotten into out clubbing, parties or wherever.

   Honestly, sometimes I get so weary.

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     Prof Kemi FG (kfuentesgeorge@universeodon.com)'s status on Monday, 29-May-2023 23:59:44 JST Prof Kemi FG

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     @Jyoti @doot

     Hegemonic (i.e., WASP) US culture is very much "swearing is uncouth." Which is a problem not only for non-USAmericans, but also for e.g. Black Americans speaking in US white-centered spaces (like much of Mastodon). Like Jyoti said below - cultural hegemony.

     The absolute *worst* is when white people get offended when Black people say "nigga." I have never wanted to kick a motherfucker in the chest as much as I do when that happens.

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     Jyoti Mishra (jyoti@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 29-May-2023 23:59:45 JST Jyoti Mishra

     @doot

     Yanks just seem less sweary on the whole, class compared with class, than Brits? (In public social spaces and pop media - I've never lived in the US.)

     I mean, I just pulled that out of my arse, it's completely anecdotal but I get the feeling they find swearing uncouth and... icky? And definitely see it as a signifier of inferior discursive competence?

     Whereas the peoples of the UK and Ireland know swearing is both big *and* clever.

     :ablobmeltsoblove: