• SmokeyDope@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      “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?

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        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

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          In Australia it’s an acceptable term, eg the movie “The Wog Boy”. In London it’s akin n to the n-word and not appropriate, I think London uses it as an abbreviation of golliwog, those racist dolls.