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It’s so funny that with all the emphasis on progressive language and weeding slurs and language based on hate out of our everyday vocabulary–
And people are still completely okay saying “wife beater” despite the term being rooted in anti-italian and general anti-immigrant sentiment during a time where Italian, Irish and other immigrants to the US were consider not to be “white” in the way we use the term today.
I’m not saying anyone should stop using this term necessarily but like, just something to think about when we talk about how and when we decide that a term is harmful to a group of people.
It’s actually really weird to be Italian bc people will get mad at me for “having white privilage” (in the American sense) when I’m not in the USA, and then they’ll turn around and be extremly xenophobic and will use that same “privilage” to justify erasing our coulture and centuries of colonization it was born out of-
That doesn’t surprise me at all but I’m really sorry it happens to you :c
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