[the subreddit, not lemmy, btw]
the words were not the n-word… see below….

racial slurs here

“coon” and “koongaroo”

if it wasn’t written by people claiming to be black, it would be indistinguishable from standard racism….
my money is on, fake as fuck and modded by actual white racists.
anyways, permanent ban, no explanation, no response to questions about the ban.
i had my doubts before, but now i’m sure.

  • insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    it would be indistinguishable from standard racism….

    my money is on, fake as fuck and modded by actual white racists

    There’s a video by F.D Signifier (“Spike Lee tried to warn us…”) where he talks about contextual use:

    these communities did not turn a blind eye, or forget how these individuals behaved and how their actions hurt other black people.

    Thus within those communities, these minstrel actors-or moreover-black people that embody that minstrel aesthetic and ideology by trying to ingratiate themselves to white people at the expense of black people… were often forced to carry the names of these characters

    I’m not part of that community (nor do I even look at Reddit anymore) so you could be right, though.