Animated_beans@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•'Black Americans for Trump' event a 'major bust' that featured 'a sea of white people'English
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8 days agoYou are right. Turning an adjective into a noun tends to make it more degrading because you’ve focused on the characteristic rather than the person. That’s why referring to people as “blacks” or “females” feels icky. It’s why we saw “deaf people” and not “the deafs” or “old people” and not “the olds.”
That’s a good attitude to have when you are trying to calm a mind anxious about whether you forgot something, but it is a really wasteful strategy long-term