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A photo taken of A black African American waving a "FUCK ICE" Flag (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/pics@lemmy.world
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[–] 0 points 9 months ago* (7 children)

African American? Did they or their parents recently immigrate from Africa? Are they invested in African politics? Do they at least adopt some form of African cultural identity? Otherwise, they are just Americans.

Elon Musk is more of an African American than people judged by the color of their skin given how much he has tried to push his own agendas regarding South Africa onto this administration.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    you know what "African-American" means, stop being obtuse, you just sound ridiculous

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    We all know what people mean by it; they mean "black" but are scared to say it for whatever reason.

    I think criticism of the term "African-American" is valid. Most black people in America today have never been to Africa.

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  • [–] -3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    oh absolutely, i've seen enough criticism of that term from Black people (americans or not) to know not to use it.

    still, pretending to not know what it means just to push a half-baked message about racial colorblindness is... why. why would you do this. the elon musk shit on top of it, why

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    Just pretending to be an obtuse moron instead of taking a comment as the criticism it is shows your shit riling instincts at work, not the validity of my criticism. Also, learn some proper capitalization, it makes your comment look like it sounds.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    My beef is with Americans saying "I am an X American" when what they really mean is "I try to LARP as X at times in whatever my American bubble says they do". But specially with African American. It's black. Black. Black. Say it with me. Black. No negative connotation (except people's own insecurities), just a simple oversimplified label like any other of its sort.

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