when people refer to dialogue between black people in books such as uncle tom's cabin as "black dialect" does that upset you?
Nope. I recognize Ebonics as a distinct English dialect, and it’s useful to have something to call it (although it might be best to refer to it as something less racist w/e). Linguist John McWhorter writes about this! It’s interesting!
(also, it would be especially stupid to be upset by racist language in a book like uncle tom’s cabin, which was written by an abolitionist in the standard parlance of the time.)
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Y r u a vegetarian
I started out by copying my older sister, who was for annoying ethical reasons, then was for annoying ethical reasons, then realized that there was nothing ethical or unethical about eating meat and now am out of habit and conditioned disgust. I’ll probably stop someday. I did love turkey sandwiches.
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