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[quote=Anonymous]+1000000 to the above posts. I do understand the instinct to call attention to the way our institutions, including our language, often reinforce racist messages. But do we have to shame people for using normal words that we have suddenly decided aren't okay? Second, it's uncomfortable to think it is racist to use a term that originated in black slang. If that is the case, our language is literally defined by white culture and black culture is somehow untouchable. So if you can't say a word as mainstream as hood, what's next? I can't listen to hip hop? Eating collard greens is racist? Ridiculous. The flip side of "cultural appropriation" is completely ignoring a culture. Thank God our ancestors appropriated away. [/quote]
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