ConnorEl
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Oppressor...or one posturing as superior.
Not that this ever happens on an internet message board.
Not that this ever happens on an internet message board.
Oppressor...or one posturing as superior.
Not that this ever happens on an internet message board.
When somebody says for instance "yes Massa" they are typically being critical of the person who is the perceived oppressor in that situation. Are they doing it in an insensitive way? perhaps. But it is absolutely hyperbole.
And hyperbole is a rhetorical device, so my original statement was factually correct.
Do people actually use this phrase? They should stop.
Performing the voice of a slave is certainly rhetorical but it isn't hyperbole or auxesis.
It's also something you see a lot alongside other examples of racism or anti-semitism on 4 or 8chan
See: "we wuz kangs" (or "kangz n shiet") another racist caricature of patois
I will let you tell them people they should stop. Let me know when you tell them. I will share it with my AA clients. I am sure they will all be grateful and honored.
Do people actually use this phrase? They should stop.
I will defer to the expert here and acknowledge that it is indeed a rhetorical device, one that sounds real racist and shitty coming from an old white dude.
I think it is generational. We called each other retards in grade school as well.
You seem like a piece of shit.
That is not hyperbole
And you are not in grade school anymore. I don't think you are out there using that word in 2021. Which is different than rj continuing to use that racist language as an almost 70 year old man.
rhetoric is also open to about a thousand definitions (not hyperbole) so ymmv depending on who you're in the car with - though it's certainly not dialectic or argument
but calling it a rhetorical device instead of a derogatory imitation or racist caricature or racialized performance is also certainly a rhetorical choice
I don't and I agree it is insensitive.
I also think it insensitive to call somebody a piece of shit or a shitty boomer.
You seem like a piece of shit.
I am looking to RJs intention, and I don't think his primary intention was derogatory towards a black person. It was being derogatory against the person he made the statement against.