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**AblemTee** · 07-07-2012, 06:15 AM

It kinda makes it seem like being "white" is normal and everyone else is out of the ordinary so I don't really like it to be honest and I would never use it either, it sounds very old-fashioned and I think it has some negative connotations for non-whites.

It was invented by professional anti-racists and it is mostly used by them, so whatever "negative connotations" it has (and I agree it sounds jarring) are unlikely to have been part of the design.

07-07-2012, 06:15 AM	#17
AblemTee Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 448 Senior Member	It kinda makes it seem like being "white" is normal and everyone else is out of the ordinary so I don't really like it to be honest and I would never use it either, it sounds very old-fashioned and I think it has some negative connotations for non-whites. It was invented by professional anti-racists and it is mostly used by them, so whatever "negative connotations" it has (and I agree it sounds jarring) are unlikely to have been part of the design.
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