[Ads-l] "yt [white] women"

[Laurence Horn]

Don’t have access to Facebook but Urbandictionary reveals that “yt” = “whitey” (often derogatory).  And “yt” also seems regularly used (as in “yt women”, “yt privilege”,…) for “white”.  So not an idiosyncrasy.

LH

> On Jan 28, 2020, at 3:42 PM, Mark Mandel <markamandel at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> I just saw this in a thread on Facebook about reactions to Kobe Bryant's
> awful death: https://www.facebook.com/31712671/posts/10103591004654998/,
> the thread beginning with Jocelyn Sawyer's comment. As far as I've read,
> she's the only one who used it there, so I can't tell if it's an
> idiosyncrasy or on a wider (subculture?) txt vocabulary.
> 
> MAM
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