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fuxxociety t1_j58arie wrote

friendly suggestion, you may want to reword that statement..

Maybe it was meant to be a joke, but it reads like old southern racism. Jus' sayin.

Edit. I'm an idiot. please disregard.

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Loki-Holmes t1_j58c63g wrote

How on Earth did you get racism from that?

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Ruleseventysix t1_j58dnxu wrote

Maybe they are misinterpreting a Spook as something racist instead of as another word for spy?

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Sinder77 t1_j58fchc wrote

Spook is a racist slur. It's also a spy, but it's also a slur.

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fuxxociety t1_j58ez6o wrote

That's exactly what happened. I was raised in southern US. I'll see myself out.

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MansfromDaVinci t1_j59em6h wrote

r/unexpectedthehumanstain

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Coca-colonization t1_j5a3ljw wrote

Exactly what I was thinking of. I wasn’t familiar with the term until that movie. What an insane movie too. Anthony Hopkins plays a white-passing black man? Good job, Hollywood. 🤦‍♀️

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ELYSIANFEELS t1_j58eosn wrote

Do you know what a "spook" is? How is that racist?

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Sinder77 t1_j58faku wrote

Because it is? It's a slur against black people. It also means spy. But it's also racist.

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Samstradamus t1_j5aytjl wrote

One definition means "spy"

A different definition means a racial slur

Yet another definition means "ghost"

The fact that one definition means a racial slur doesn't mean that each and every definition is racist

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