ngl there is racist connotations in the way people label ICE as "masked thugs" or "gang members". by doing this you're disassociating ICE from state institutions & associating them with racialized terms of criminality in order to reinforce the idea that they're dangerous. In reality they're just cops & this is just cop shit.
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[–] 11 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Why would it be racist to use the terms "thugs" and "gangs" to refer to white people? If anything, we should keep using them this way - decouple those terms from racial connotations.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    If we don't reclaim words from use in hate speech, we'll run out of words and communicate like cavemen using grunts and pointing. We're currently in the process of losing the word "ice" to hatred ffs

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    yeeeeeees that's their point, to not allow the euphemism treadmill to continue..

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  • problem is that reversing it is hard. can be done be the affected communities, like how they did with "Queer", but not outsiders.

    that's like saying I'm allowed to use the N word because I'm an ally and want to destigmatize it. fuck no. it's a battle I can't win and will likely cause harm.

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