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

[Ann Burlingham]

Very common on Facebook, too, as a way of avoiding Facebook jail for
talking about white people.

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 5:05 PM Alice Faber <afaber at panix.com> wrote:

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> On 1/28/20 3:42 PM, Mark Mandel 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.
> >
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> It's extremely, extremely common in Twitter feeds of activist black
> women, and I've been aware of it for at least 5 years.
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