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For just about all former soviet states, the N word is the term used to describe black people, because the word imported from Europe to describe Africans. It doesn't have the connotations or baggage that westerners attach to it. Diddo for blackface and sambo imagery, it's usually used more out of ignorance than malice.
Anyone volunteering to beak barriers in that part of the world has their work cut out for them.
You can not say these things do not have "the connotations or baggage" (how dismissive) that "westerners attach to it." The N word is an English word with one use, dehumanizing people of African ancestry. Blackface and Sambo imagery are also borne of white supremacist ideals and dehumanizing Africans. That is specifically where this stuff comes from. There is no alternative interpretation. You could maybe say someone is ignorant of the history of the N word, but if you are not racist garbage, the intent of blackface and Sambo imagery is very clear without needing a history lesson. Acting as an apologist for racists is functionally the same as being racist. I'm sure you've heard the expression about having dinner with 9 Nazis. 10 Nazis are having dinner.
I'm very much reading someone with a very narrow world view lecturing me without making any real effort to understand what im saying.
You're imposing your morals and values as well as any colonizer or ethnocentrist I've ever known!
What a load of shit. One of the ways that we can communicate across languages and cultures is via imagery. Blackface and Sambo imagery isn't limited by USA hegemony. It's pretty clear the meaning. You didn't address that at all.
Exactly, thank you. Gotta love these "enlightened" racists.
Not tolerating racism is a narrow world view? You aren't hiding your power level very well.