“Black people say the n word a lot in rap, why can’t I” is the argument (such as it is). The short hand is “rap”, or “the rap argument”, as in “and then he hit me with ‘rap’,”. It’s used to talk about the argument, because it’s so well worn that you don’t need to specify it any further when discussing it in the context of racism discourse.
Same with “purple”. There are many ways to bring colorblind policies, and many ways to argue for and against (hint: they mostly a bad idea, but not obviously or straightforwardly so), but the moment someone adds obvious non skin colors (“purple” being the stereotype and the trope namer here) it’s time to roll your eyes and walk away.
No you misunderstand.
“Black people say the n word a lot in rap, why can’t I” is the argument (such as it is). The short hand is “rap”, or “the rap argument”, as in “and then he hit me with ‘rap’,”. It’s used to talk about the argument, because it’s so well worn that you don’t need to specify it any further when discussing it in the context of racism discourse.
Same with “purple”. There are many ways to bring colorblind policies, and many ways to argue for and against (hint: they mostly a bad idea, but not obviously or straightforwardly so), but the moment someone adds obvious non skin colors (“purple” being the stereotype and the trope namer here) it’s time to roll your eyes and walk away.
Thanks for clearing this up. As it seems there is a very large cultural gap at work as I have never heard of these “reserved words”.
There are no reserved words. What are you talking about?
But yeah, there’s a culture gap. You grew up among racists and never questioned anything.
Also, mods nuked the whole thread so 🤷♀️