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thank you for noticing esby

lol

if challenging bougie message board people to think critically about the linguistic violence of neologisms like 'BIPOC' was a sport, then esby could be nominated for an ESPY Award

if assholes could fly...

tbh this is the first time I have noticed esby.
― Yerac, Tuesday, June 30, 2020 5:41 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm. just let ppl post imo

This guy is one of only three people I've ever fped and I'm looking to go 3 for 3. Mind boggling he could be 35.

Thank you for FPing esby

lol

grady and max basically spent an entire Monday afternoon basically digging up 5 year old posts of mine under another nickname to dogpile me, even breaking the 77 rule, and a whopping 3 people came to my defense. I was basically told "hey you shouldn't have said it if you didn't want it to be used against you later".

peace_man, who I like and respect, insinuated we were dogpiling him for no reason, i pointed out "no, he asks for it and enjoys the attention". It was the wrong thread to do it on, completely, and for that part I'm sorry, but don't act as if I wasn't part of the convo other than to dunk on esby. I was one of the first to reply to flopson re: BIPOC, and I was reading the thread because it was genuinely something I was confused on, then he dropped the line "what do you people do all day" and suggested BIPOC was a flash in the pan term that won't be used in a few years, so naturally we got annoyed.

Lol @ acting like anybody's past is being dug into here, searching for posts by user is literally a feature of the board. Not like I scoured BBS posts from him from 1993 or posted his yearbook pic

thank you for doxxing esby

I'm sorry for not giving credit that you were already part of the discussion, Neanderthal. I shouldn't have overlooked you there. Idk when the thing with max and grady happened but it sounds bad; board has been a lot nastier in the past and I wouldn't let something like that go if I saw it now, unless it was provoked by something like hate speech or harassment of individual posters. I'll stand by a lot of what I said; the idea that "BIPOC" is a problematic term that could or should be a flash in the pan seems valid to me.

Why?

How is it problematic, who is it hurting, and why does it matter if it becomes a part of the mainstream lexicon or doesn't?

Obviously it matters to the people who are pushing it. Even ilxors were far from achieving consensus on the utility or even the meaning of the term, and lots of these terms do get outdated quickly, so I don't think it's an invalid troll opinion.

My own opinion is that it is overly specific to the US context and inappropriate to the historical and social context of other countries, without indicating this in the term itself (in the way that, say, "African-American" does); even within the US context, I am suspicious of the need to establish some quasi-hierarchy among people of colour every time people of colour are referred to as a group. (We already have simple and clear words we can use when we want to talk about issues that specifically impact or concern black or indigenous people.) There might be some context where it is appropriate but I'm not convinced of replacing "POC" (which I already like less than "non-white" or "visible minority" for the reason I gave on the race thread) with this term, which is what some people seem to want to do.

I thought it was only being used in the US anyway? Or North America? No point in using it in the UK or Europe for instance.

We don't use POC over here anyway.

It's definitely being used in Canada, where I don't think it works the same way as in the US.

https://twitter.com/bipocpub
https://www.bipoctvandfilm.com
https://www.writersunion.ca/bipoc-writers-connect

That's why I said North America.

OK?

On the internet, no one knows you’re not an American.

People who have no stakes in the argument should stfu is how I roll.

lol sometimes people complain about "woke" language purely for stylistic concerns

My reasons were not stylistic and I do have stakes.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

wat is this thread about

It’s about how good esby is at posting

he's a viking at posting?

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

i voted for 27) because i thought it was funny

lol @ only 12 votes

thank you for voting bougie

this is such a glorious summer