"Blacks at Xbox" - Incredibly tone-deaf? (Update: Xbox Communication Manager explains)
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"The blacks" has racist connotations. Using "blacks" as a plural noun means literally the same thing as using "whites" or "Asians". As mentioned before, "blacks" as a plural noun referring to black people is used in peer reviewed scientific literature alongside "Whites", "Hispanics", and so on. It saves time compared to writing "people of African descent" over and over again.
Really liking the "Ha, look at these OFFENDED crazies" responses in this thread.
Really nice.
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Really nice.
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it's just a tweet that could have worded a bit differently.
Blacks at Xbox doesn't sound great, but I think it's because the word's history is so loaded.
Latin@/Latinx at Xbox sounds fine though.
Blacks at Xbox doesn't sound great, but I think it's because the word's history is so loaded.
Latin@/Latinx at Xbox sounds fine though.
I mean when used by black people of course. Like here Blacks at Xbox is used as a self-identifaction by a group of black people. But then there's people who find it offensive or problematic. From my understanding n-word is in similar situation. People may refer to themselves or to other people with the word, while some people see it as degrading even when coming from a black person. Didn't mean to imply similar history and/or severity for the words.
Obviously I refrain from using either of them as I'm not a black person.
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They're trying too hard with the fist bump, colors alone would be alright though.
Hi five! I'm in my Latinos @ erg and support my local Latino affinity chapter!
It'd be nice if people on a forum could actually read posts in a thread outside the title before giving the usual "yikes" response.
Colors alone is all I want. Like let me Nike ID that right now.
Think of it like this: black people often have to deal with labels they had no say in choosing. And even when they do choose to self apply these labels, they are still turned into epithets. Hence mixed feelings.
The image graphic shoulda been the control graphic. if we being real.
But who is actually upset?
Feels like white peoples are upset on behalf of black people , who in turn aren't upset at all, because they created it.
I mean we can work around it but "blacks" aint the answer imo. Thats all. We can find a way, people shouldnt talk like its impossible.
Black has always worked for me. Never liked African American personally.
This thread makes me want to listen to James Brown's "Say It Loud – We're Blacks and We're Proud."
But "The Jews" and "The Gays" is different than "Jews" or "Gays."
This tweet doesn't say "The Blacks"
I mean personally I say Black People instead of "Blacks" because I know some find that offensive, but I'm not gonna look twice at a black run organization that wants to call itself that.
Same. I've never stepped foot in Africa 🤷🏾♂️.
That controller looks amazing too
When I hear/see Afro-American all I can think of is when Michael Richards went on Letterman to apologize for his racist rant and kept using the term Afro-American.
Black vs. Blacks
People who can't grasps why the dehumanizing nature of "the blacks" irks us black folk are truly something else.
But sure, we're just 'itching' to be outraged and shit.
People who can't grasps why the dehumanizing nature of "the blacks" irks us black folk are truly something else.
But sure, we're just 'itching' to be outraged and shit.
I get that, but I dont like Blacks without anything after it. Like there is no way to talk about this group without sounding like a racist. "I heard that The Blacks at Xbox did yadda yadda"
like to be honest I dont really care if the people who named and run this organization is black, they simply didn't think this through period.
To be fair there's something to say about white people swooping in to these threads to fingerwag at said folks and act like there's nothing to talk about. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But did you keep that same energy when you saw Black Panther, fam?
Furthermore, not all Africans are black. Including those who emigrate to NA and are factually African-American
That's fair and I'm sure the actual activities and events are well handled. But its very clear to me that at the outset a black person(s) had to tell or submit this to a panel of white people to get this group founded and took the path of least resistance. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I think I speak for most people when I say I don't read peer reviewed scientific literature.
"See?! Black people aren't offended!"
"Uhm, I mean, I'm not outraged but I'm not keen on the name--"
"White people are always getting offended on other's behalf!"
"Are...are you listening to me?"
Yeah that's poorly worded, it's meant to be "Our (insert group) community." Not "Our blacks..", but thats a good response from the comms manager. MS shouldn't just immediately react by taking down the tweet, ask the group if they want to take it down or clarify it in a second tweet.
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"Black person" is acceptable. "Blacks" is pretty iffy, but not on the level of saying the n-word.
Not really that offensive, at least as a black dude here. African American vs Black is really fuckin' white folk up, man.
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