Comment on Glad to see Lemmy users appreciating diversity

• Pyroglyph@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Calling black people “ebony” is like calling white people “porcelain”. It’s romanticising their skin colour. It may make sense for things like porn, but please don’t refer to any group with that sort of name in a normal context. It’s incredibly weird.

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  • pyff@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Exactly right, but the context being discussed is porn.

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    • Pyroglyph@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Yes, but you’ve also said that referring to people as “black” is dehumanising, and then you were asked what word you’d use instead. At this moment it isn’t unreasonable to think the context has changed from porn community titles to your personal thoughts on how to refer to a specific ethnic group in any situation.
      That’s how I (and I assume many others) read the situation.

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      • pyff@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Yes, but you’ve also said that referring to people as “black” is dehumanising

        No. Myself, and the commenter who was being responded to, said that referring to Black people as “blacks” is dehumanizing, which it is, and the context being asked for was an alternative term for an NSFW community. Hopefully that clarifies the issue.

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  • DokPsy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I believe you’ll find that it’s Ebony and Ivory. … Side by side in perfect harmony

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• Stinkywinks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Pretty sure they prefer black like native Americans prefer Indians. Can we call people white? I’ve never heard anyone wants to be called ebony. I only know the term ebony from porn

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  • pyff@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    “Pretty sure they”… Nope, I’ll stop you right there.

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    • Stinkywinks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Yeah because the majority of blacks use reddit and ebony porn sites. So do you call them ebonies?

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      • pyff@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Not exactly sure what you’re asking, but no, collective nouns aren’t generally pluralized in English, nor is the term appropriate outside of a porn context. Are you a native English speaker?

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