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   Flick ?? (flick@spinster.xyz)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 00:52:56 JST Flick ??

   @thatguyoverthere A slur on whom, exactly?

   Is “spooksexual” the latest thing? Oh, no, that wouldn’t work. “Spysexual”?

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     Flick ?? (flick@spinster.xyz)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 00:52:55 JST Flick ??

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     @FeartnTired @thatguyoverthere

     "If someone says, 'Did you get spooked?' and there are no black people there, then, OK, you mean 'Did you get scared or frightened?' That's fine, I get it."

     But once you insert black people into the situation, Blake says, it's important to be more tactful. "We know that the word 'niggardly' doesn't mean a black person, but let's be sensitive. Are you going to use the word niggardly in front of a group of young students in a classroom? No."

     Oh, fuck off. What tosh.

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     ≠ (amerika@annihilation.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 00:52:55 JST ≠

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     @Flick @thatguyoverthere @FeartnTired
     
     "Spook" was more northeast city slang. In the south you just called them -- well, you get the point.
     
     But it wasn't necessarily a hateful word either.
     
     I didn't get the "shadow beating" reference in a movie once either. Turns out it's LA slang. (Ironically, Russians use a similar word -- dukh, ghost/spirit/shadow -- for darker people.)
     
     There is no USA.
     
     There are regions of the USA...
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     Feart n Tired ??????? (feartntired@spinster.xyz)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 00:52:56 JST Feart n Tired ???????

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     @Flick @thatguyoverthere muricans bein racist, so everyone has to take on. again. https://boingboing.net/2020/10/22/the-racist-history-of-the-word-spook.html
     
     pretty much anything can be applied as a slur, and I have never, in all my years of watching US TV shows and films, many of which tackle historic racism in gory detail, has "spook" come up.
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     ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware: (dcc@annihilation.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 00:54:48 JST ✙ dcc :pedomustdie: :phear_slackware:

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     @amerika @Flick @FeartnTired @thatguyoverthere Spook also means glow boy.