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HelpRe: The judgment makes me uncomfortable
in reply to a message by BlackOpinion
Wow, I seriously cannot believe all the defensive white people replying to this.
The right to deride the name "Sir" in a public forum should not be anyone's hill to die on. This should not be a subject of debate. It is not and should not be white people's prerogative to contemplate how they (white people) should define black naming culture and, hey, what really is black (naming) culture, anyway? People are bending over backwards to justify why their dislike of "Sir" is not racist and are twisting things so thoroughly that they're now convinced the other side is being unreasonable: "so you're saying NO ONE is allowed to have an opinion of ANY name?" / "who even decides what name is from what culture anyway?" / "it's not about race because I would still think it's stupid if a white person used it!" / etc. Do you even hear yourselves? This is ludicrous. This is white fragility to the extreme.
The right to deride the name "Sir" in a public forum should not be anyone's hill to die on. This should not be a subject of debate. It is not and should not be white people's prerogative to contemplate how they (white people) should define black naming culture and, hey, what really is black (naming) culture, anyway? People are bending over backwards to justify why their dislike of "Sir" is not racist and are twisting things so thoroughly that they're now convinced the other side is being unreasonable: "so you're saying NO ONE is allowed to have an opinion of ANY name?" / "who even decides what name is from what culture anyway?" / "it's not about race because I would still think it's stupid if a white person used it!" / etc. Do you even hear yourselves? This is ludicrous. This is white fragility to the extreme.
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If you have something to say about my response I welcome it there. But you'll also see in my later reponse that I concede that white vs black naming culture is different than white vs "other" naming culture. I wholeheartedly understand the historical context. But I still think Sir, on it own, as an everyday word, apart from black tradition of using title names, is not a good name.
This message was edited 7/17/2017, 9:27 PM
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I wish I could have expressed this the way you did.
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