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[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

"The fuck is a wog"

does internet search

"okay cool English specific term for darker colored foreigner ethnicity people but apparently its a derogatory racial slur so why would someone identify themselves as one?"

Serious question by the way, is that like your cultures version of "we've appropriated a word you used to insult our kind and now pridefully incorporate it as a positive association word into our minority culture, and theres nothing you racist squares can do about it" or am I missing something?

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

its a derogatory racial slur so why would someone identify themselves as one?"

Reclaiming slurs is cool. Less power to those who would use them against us. One of the reasons I don't agree with the trend of constantly moving towards whatever the politically correct language of the day is. We're just handing more insults to the assholes.

See https://sh.itjust.works/post/31758327 for related discussion