The thing is, just because you or I don't see how something is offensive doesn't mean that it isn't. A phrase like "real injustice" is our way of subtly saying "we get to define what injustice is, you don't."
Because there is now a culture of co-opting or manufacturing outrage as part of some sort of ridiculous social justice movement. Unfortunately twitter, tumbler, etc gives idiots a loud mouthpiece for things like this when previously they would have just been ignored.
Any usage of Ebonics no matter how playful can upset a person, especially when that person hangs out with butterflies in designer clothing hovering over the unwashed peeps is my guess.
Well, you're not a woman who has to put up with cat-calling and name-calling on the street so I wouldn't expect you to see it as disrespectful. Mr. McClure didn't see it as disrespectful at first either until a number of his followers helped him understand why it would be.
This article left out a bunch of the discussion he had with people who called him out on his choice of words, it's worth reading.
Yep,yep. I misread the headline and read this hoping for insights from Troy McClure. I really don't care about how a person on Twitter was offended by a tweet. I learned nothing from this blog post.
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[ 4.8 ms ] story [ 37.4 ms ] threadPeople are very quick to escalate stuff like this when there are enough real injustices around where they could be targeting their time and efforts.
It's a bit like reminding African American participants to sign up using one of the terms from http://www.rsdb.org/race/blacks
This article left out a bunch of the discussion he had with people who called him out on his choice of words, it's worth reading.