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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
coded racial language does not feel strange at all to me.
it's a very normal and deeply engrained aspect of our language in this country.
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I guess that’s only because you grew up with it, because trust me, if you didn’t, what’s normal is to say black when meaning black, and urban when meaning urban.
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but this thread in particular is about how the word "urban" has actually lost a lot of its former code connotations over the past 2 decades or so, at least among younger generations.
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Yep, and that’s certainly not a bad thing. Why even need “code”? The whole thing sounds so hypocritical. “I don’t like black music” is fine, you don’t have to say “I don’t like urban music”.
Is there even a way to say “the subway in NYC is too crowded for my tastes, I prefer using taxis” without it automatically meaning “I’m racist and don’t want to be with all these blacks in the subway”?