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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

From Wiktionary (I'm not posting a link, look it up yourself):

There have been efforts by those of African descent to reclaim the word (especially in the form n___a), but these efforts are controversial and some people do not believe it is able to be reclaimed due to its fraught history and continued derogatory usage. Regardless, usage by non-blacks is still almost invariably considered highly racist and offensive.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That doesn't seem to be a reclaiming of a word (since it wasn't previously used in a good way), but a reuse of a historically insulting term. I can respect the effort, but I still cringe when hearing it used as an amiable word. I don't know if that makes me racist because I have trouble moving past it being a slur and distasteful. Maybe it's still too new and it's going to take a few generations to become more normalized.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Reclaim" is still the term we use for that, even though just "claim" or "seize" might be more fitting. See also

homophobic slurremoved

which some LGBT+ people use in an almost tongue-in-cheek way to refer to themselves and each other, as a way to invert and defang the hostility with which it is used by bigots.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh, your slur got removed. Didn’t realize World did that, thought it was just ml or something.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, that was news to me, I wasn't sure if it was just my client. I'm not complaining - but I've been half-expecting an automatic ban!

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Banning would create a lot of false positives

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's because you grew up in a different culture that you feel that way. Nothing wrong with it.