#Racist phrases

[feminegra]

"Hay que mejorar la raza" - Exploring Mexican Racist Slang

1. Hay que mejorar la raza (aka Let’s pretty up the family tree… with lighter branches) What’s the deal? This one’s like saying you should aim to marry someone super pale – because apparently, that’s “better”? Yikes. It reeks of that old colonial “white is right” attitude. Why it’s messed up: Imagine telling your kids the key to success is ditching their heritage for a whiter shade. Not cool,…

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#Anti-racism #Colorism #Language and racism #Mexican Spanish phrases #Racism in Mexico #Racist phrases

[hazel2468]

I keep seeing people bitching about "uwu when I say 'from the river to the sea' people say I'm calling for geeenocide! They say I'm antisemitic!" and like.

Maybe. instead of clinging to a phrase that a bunch of white leftists have co-opted because they think it sounds nice. And digging your little immature heels in. You should LISTEN when people tell you that yes. The phrase's FUCKING ORIGIN was a call for the eradication of Jews from the area known as Israel and Palestine. That NO, you cannot divorce it from those roots. YES, it IS still used to mean that TO THIS DAMN DAY.

And look. Maybe you DON'T think that Israelis should all be killed and/or exiled from Israel and Palestine. Maybe you DON'T think that the genocide of an entire people is the solution. Maybe you DON'T hate Jews and want all of us dead. And if that's the case? Great!

But how the FUCK are we supposed to tell the difference when you are using the EXACT same phrase as countless people who DO want those things. People who DO hate Jews, who ARE supportive of organizations that want to commit violence, people who SUPPORT what happened on October 7th?

When people tell you "hey, this phrase means something else, it has ALWAYS come from those roots, and using it is NOT OKAY because it is STILL used as a rallying cry for violence against Israelis and Jews worldwide", the way to react? Is NOT to fucking double down and use it.

Because that? DOES make you an antisemite. And if I see you using that phrase? Then I MUST assume that at best, you do not know what it means and have SOMEHOW avoided the countless Jews and non-Jews I have seen talking about it, or at WORST you actively hate me and want me and every single one of my people dead.

And frankly? You are not worth that risk to interact with.

Stop saying it. There are SO many ways to support Palestine, the Palestinian people, and their fight for rights, that do not involve spouting genocidal, antisemitic rhetoric. it is NOT HARD.

But apparently, some of y'all are insistent on being racist.

#antisemitism #i/p #the phrase cannot be divorced from its roots #and if I see anyone complaining about it #I am just going to assume that you're a racist antisemite now #it's been long enough #saw someone bitching about not being allowed to have it up at work #and people railing the OTW for not allowing it and im like #ah so if I showed up with a 1488 patch and I got told I couldn't wear that #like #that's actually a GREAT comparison #because a LOT of people have no idea was 1488 means and think it's just a number #but the people who know what it stands for will take you using it as support for them #and btw it's a white supremacist and Nazi symbol #so when someone says hey you know that number isn't JUST a number #it has a lot of racist and violent connotations #the response is not to INSIST that you be allowed to use that damn number #it should be to go oh shit and ditch it #because YOU DON'T WANT FUCKING WHITE SUPREMACISTS THINKING YOU AGREE WITH THEM

[communistkenobi]

convincing the graduate chair that it’s fine to give me an extra month to study for my comprehensive exams by giving me the comps list early by explaining that there’s no way in hell im studying with any of the other phd students in my cohort

#the moment I discovered the phrase little eichmanns it permanently etched itself into my vocabulary #because that’s what all of them are #they’re all fucking rich white progressive racist types who think they’re above reading theory. fucking ghoulish human beings #and I know they’re gonna beg me to give them all my notes and teach them how to read marx #because that’s what they’ve been doing all semester #you’re a PhD social science student the fact that you don’t like theory isn’t my problem! Drop out if it’s that hard #go work at your dad’s firm or whatever

[ot3]

in my most recent trawl through the ace attorney tag i saw a post that, based on its phrasing, may have been prompted by the ask i answered about my thoughts on aa5 and 6. nothing wrong with that, pretty standard 'why does everyone act like aa5/6 killed mainline but when you go and actually play them they're just fine games'. at the end of the day whether or not you think 5/6 are well written, interesting, or fun is extremely subjective. but it's crazy how whenever anyone is making a post about how Everyone Is Just Being A Hater The Games Aren't That Bad the racism thing never comes up.

since i'm insane enough to comb through the main fandom tag without really having anyone blocked and while filtering almost nothing i have seen a Lot of pro soj stuff, and i can't recall a single instance of anyone actually talking about the racism when they come out with an overall favorable view of the game? i obviously can't know what anyone is thinking but the impression i get is that many of them don't actually view the racism as real/an issue and kinda view pointing it out as a 'gotcha' that people who hate the game use as a cudgel against it. like we just think the game is racist because we hate it and are trying to find reasons to shit on it? it would be refreshing to see even one person go 'heres why i think shitting on aa6's writing is blown out of proportion but i do still agree that its racist'

#im speaking really generally here prompted by this post i dont want it to seem like im accusing the op of ignoring points about racism #they may not have seen my post in the tag and the phrasing/timing is completely coincidental. #im also sure that there Are people who enjoy the game while acknowledging the fact that the premise is racist and weird as hell #i wont pretend thats a category of people who doesn't exist. they just don't seem to be that vocal

[zoe-oneesama]

I’m not entirely sure if you had covered this before, but why do you hate Roland?

Have you seen him?

#he's annoying he's not funny he's lowkey/highkey racist he's a caricature of an old fougie he doesn't wear PANTS #he's an ugly muppet he's weird he has an annoying catch phrase he brings no joy to the show

[handweavers]

most cringe racism scold moment to date was the time i was in an art crit at school and i said something about how i was inspired by classical indian temple architecture and this white person in my class gave me shit saying "you know it really bothers me when people say indian when there are so many indigenous nations each with their own specific cultures" and they just started listing the names of every indigenous nation they knew and i had to interrupt them after their 10th or 12th example to say that "i said indian as in. from india. which is where i am from." second most cringe is whatever the fuck just happened in my inbox

#its always the most bizarre archaic phrasing that nobody would ever use anymore that they assume to be a racist moment #why would i or anyone in this century ever say classic indian temple to refer to indigenous america 😭😭😭 #why would i refer to poc in ireland as the black and tans 😭😭😭

[magniloquent-raven]

yall mfers need to stop

#gay characters written with a straight audience in mind are a thing im not denying that #like 95% of one-off queer storylines in the early 2000s were just #''hello i am a gay. i have just enough personality to pass as human in the eyes of the audience. #now let me explain why you should treat me like a person'' #but my god have people taken this phrase and run all the way into hell with it #if i see one more person saying heartstopper is for straight people im gonna start biting throats out #it was created by a queer person first of all #and second of all they did not write an entire subplot about there being no age limit on discovering who you are #for STRAIGHT PEOPLE #that wasn't for them!! it was for all the people in their 30s who watched the first season #and cried their eyes out because they were seeing all the things they never got to have #im so tired yall #i stg any queer media that's even remotely lighthearted or optimistic #is immediately called ''sanitized'' or rejected as some fantasy aimed at straight ppl who dont want to deal with harsh realities #when that just isnt fair at all #also side note the post i saw that prompted me to make this also put ''pretty much all queer media made in asia'' on the list #of queer media for straights #which. feels racist. #i really dont have much of a frame of reference for queer anime/kdramas/cdramas etc. but the generalization feels sketchy #idk man i feel like there's a certain segment of the community who will just say anything they dont like is not For Us #like just because it isn't for YOU doesnt meant no one in the community can relate to/enjoy it ffs

[tiangouaway]

seeing ppl rb-ing those "rb if you're not a bigot/pedophile" posts from a decade ago is so embarrassing and corny... even worse when the op or reblogs act like you're scum if you don't

#and idk how to phrase this but i know that these posts can set off moral ocd (?) #i don't know the details but i just know it's a bad thing #so it sucks to see these posts on someone's blog #they have the vibes of “racists dni” #waba talk

[reasoningdaily]

Even the most nonsensical idioms in the English language originated somewhere. Some terms, like silver lining and tomfoolery, have innocuous roots, while other sayings date back to the darkest chapters in U.S. history. While these common phrases are rarely used in their original contexts today, knowing their racist origins casts them in a different light.

1. Tipping Point

This common phrase describes the critical point when a change that had been a possibility becomes inevitable. When it was popularized, according to Merriam-Webster, it was applied to one phenomenon in particular: white flight. In the 1950s, as white people abandoned urban areas for the suburbs in huge numbers, journalists began using the phrase tipping point in relation to the percentage of non-white neighbors it took to trigger this reaction in white city residents. Tipping point wasn’t coined in the 1950s (it first appeared in print in the 19th century), but it did enter everyday speech during the decade thanks to this topic.

2. Long Time, No See

The saying long time, no see can be traced back to the 19th century. In a Boston Sunday Globe article from 1894, the words are applied to a Native American speaker. The broken English phrase was also used to evoke white people’s stereotypical ideas of Native American speech in William F. Drannan’s 1899 book Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, Or, the Last Voice from the Plains An Authentic Record of a Life Time of Hunting, Trapping, Scouting and Indian Fighting in the Far West.

It’s unlikely actual Native Americans were saying long time, no see during this era. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, this type of isolating construction would have been unusual for the indigenous languages of North America. Rather, it originated as a way for white writers to mock Native American speech, and that of non-native English speakers from other places like China. By the 1920s, it had become an ordinary part of the American vernacular.

3. Mumbo Jumbo

Before it was synonymous with jargon or other confusing language, the phrase mumbo jumbo originated with religious ceremonies in West Africa. In the Mandinka language, the word Maamajomboo described a masked dancer who participated in ceremonies. Former Royal African Company clerk Francis Moore transcribed the name as mumbo jumbo in his 1738 book Travels into the Inland Parts of Africa. In the early 1800s, English speakers started to divorce the phrase from its African origins and apply it to anything that confused them.

4. Sold Down the River

Before the phrase sold down the river meant betrayal, it originated as a literal slave-trading practice. Enslaved people from more northerly regions were sold to cotton plantations in the Deep South via the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. For enslaved people, the threat of being “sold down the river” implied separation from family and a guaranteed life of hard labor and brutal conditions. A journal entry from April 1835 mentions a person who, “having been sold to go down the river, attempted first to cut off both of his legs, failing to do that, cut his throat, did not entirely take his life, went a short distance and drowned himself.”

5. No Can Do

Similar to long time, no see, no can do originated as a jab at non-native English speakers. According to the OED, this example was likely directed at Chinese immigrants in the early 20th century. Today, many people who use the phrase as general slang for “I can’t do that” are unaware of its cruel origins.

6. Indian Giver

Merriam-Webster defines an Indian giver as “a person who gives something to another and then takes it back.” One of the first appearances was in Thomas Hutchinson’s History of the Colony of Massachuset’s Bay in the mid 18th century. In a note, it says “An Indian gift is a proverbial expression, signifying a present for which an equivalent return is expected.” In the 19th century, the stereotype was transferred from the gift to the giver, the idea of an “equivalent return” was abandoned, and it became used as an insult. An 1838 N.-Y. Mirror article mentions the “distinct species of crimes and virtues” of schoolchildren, elaborating, “I have seen the finger pointed at the Indian giver. (One who gives a present and demands it back again.)”

Even as this stereotype about Indigenous people faded, the phrase Indian giver has persisted into the 21st century. The word Indian in Indian giver also denotes something false, as it does in the antiquated phrase Indian summer.

7. Cakewalk

In the antebellum South, some enslaved Black Americans spent Sundays dressing up and performing dances in the spirit of mocking the white upper classes. The enslavers didn’t know they were the butt of the joke, and even encouraged these performances and rewarded the best dancers with cake, hence the name.

Possibly because this was viewed as a leisurely weekend activity, the phrase cakewalk became associated with easy tasks. Cakewalks didn’t end with slavery: For decades, they remained (with cake prizes) a part of Black American life—but at the same time, white actors in blackface incorporated the act into minstrel shows, turning what began as a satire of white elites into a racist caricature of Black people.

#The Racist Origins of 7 Common Phrases #racism #idioms #colloquialisms #caricature #mocking phrases #white supremacy #hate speech #how to identify hate speech

[pezberrypolls]

#glee #pezberry #rachel berry #santana lopez #polls #glee polls #i hope the phrasing of the question is the most inclusive aklsjflksf #since a lot of them are bi or pan and there's one nb on the list so idk #also i put rules on there cause it would be funny #like could you imagine #and as obsessed as i am with hsmtmts rn i dont think they'd be friends with madlyn rip #rachel would be threatened by ashlyn's voice and santana would just idk be racist to maddox probably #i also hate palex omg but i had to include them if i included any degrassi ships #palex is literally brittana and i mean that in the most derogatory way #snatch those blonde bi's out of there and give my latina lesbians what they deserve #also if you read this far plz dont talk about brittana on these polls akjfskl there's a whole blog for that but this is pezberry territory #altho i appreciate anyone who reblogs and has a lot to say in the tags uwu

[sangfielle]

this feels like an offensively bad way to divide these things

#in a number of ways. ehhh. #chief among them being 'middle eastern' being used at all #which as i grow older i have less tolerance to even pretending thats not a racist turn of phrase #but also. there are 'middle eastern' ethnic jews. that exist like as an ethnicity. #indigenous is so broad as to basically mean nothing. #ethnically jewish being a distinct category at all. these people are either white or they arent #depending on which group they're from. a large number of them are white. #i was going to keep complaining about other issues but i just realized: its a tumblr poll #and the fact that i politically take offense to my arab part being lumped in with #the part that was arabized . is like. nobody not involved in swana racial politics gives a shit

[cctinsleybaxter]

sorry for being #problematic but i almost wish prior was cheating with danvers; out of all the relationships on the show theirs is the most interesting

#edit: and it would make ep 5 make more sense!!!!! #another instance of media being like 'racist cop who constantly breaks the law for her own gain = cool antihero' #'sleeping with a 25 year old minor = irredeemably evil' #speaking of which INSANE that they tried to frame him as a baby by having him not know what someone calling danvers 'mrs robinson' meant #i know not a lot of (actually) younger people have seen the movie but i feel like there's so much cultural osmosis behind it #that that's still a popular reference/turn of phrase #idk maybe i'm wrong but still stupid to have that be the pull when his own dad is the one making the reference #tdnc

[chaiaurchaandni]

let him cook

#he said what he said #saw this posted in response to some racist white ass fuck arguing that from the river to the sea shouldnt be used and #palestinians should oick another phrase #so someone replied and said okay and posted this LMAO #hes so me fr #free palestine #palestinian liberation is not a matter of if but when #palestine #gaza #long live palestine #glory to the martyrs #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #long live the resistance #death to israel

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

OK, like six years ago or something, I was like, "hey, @princeofsparkles, I keep seeing this crazy porn video over and over and over again of this guy with a bunch of massive bad dragon dildos on a lazy susan and he spins it and sits on whichever stops in front of (we'll, behind) him. I'll show it to you next time I see it!" and then never saw it again. Anyway if you know what I'm talking about, can you shoot me a link? Wanna find it in time for their birthday 🥺🙏🥺

#Also. Justice for princeofsparkles account deactivated for no damn reason #This is me shooting my gun in the air to prevent gentrification #post o' mine #Lazy Susan seems like the kind of phrase that could be secretly racist but the etymology is unknown

[capaldiera]

i started reading this fucking out of character thick of it fanfic like a week ago bc even tho i could tell from first glance it was going to be ooc i was just curious and it sounded kind of funny slash tragic. (how are you tagging grief child death domestic violence attempted suicide on a ttoi fic hello?) and i dooo like complaining And for the most part if it weren't supposed to be about those guys it would just be pretty good so im not Regretting it? but i didn't realise how many stories were in the series and im probably 150k words in. and not much more than halfway through

#and it doesnt even have sex scenes. fml #me.txt #iam also so fed up with writing that seems to romanticise women prioritising men andtheir emotions over their own personal safety/ wellbeing #like im not saying you cant Depict that but maybe lets unpack that. and not treat it as if it's just that woman's inherent personality #rather than a something shes been Taught to do #though while we're on the subject actually i dont think the way nicola is written is in character either #like i focus on malcolm bc its more egregious but nicola is not.. shes not putting her kids before herself like that. #i know losing one of them might make a difference but its not even presented like it's bc of that. its just oh im writing a woman well her #priority must be her kids! well no she is a bad mum and doesnt really like her kids so #but that didnt stand out to me so much until i started rewatching s3. #i was more like ah yes. famously anti-racist feminist ally malcom tucker who easily goes not just hours but months at a time without saying #anything homophobic and uses the occasional ableist turn of phrase in his mind but usually keeps it to himself. #i mean i can definitely understand not wanting to comr up with and write realistic malcolm tucker dialogue. i wouldnt want to. #but well the whole thing is a bit he wouldnt fucking say or do any of that #but again. i could see that clearly from the description and walked in eyes open #its good tho its given me a lot to think about at work.

[robotpussy]

"humans are the virus" ok then kill yourself seeing as you are claiming we are viruses

#racist bullshit phrase like oh my god