[Ads-l] "wyte" as perjorative spelling for "white"

[Chris Waigl]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 9:56 PM Ann Burlingham <ann at burlinghambooks.com>
wrote:

>
>
> In my experience I see it in writing by Black women in order to try to
> avoid Facebook or Twitter jail, as they find their posts about white people
> get tagged as "racist".
>
>
I second that. (Men too, sometimes.)

Another Twitterism I see very frequently (more often than wyte) is yt. It
has the advantage of saving 3 characters.

Chris
I sometimes misread it as Yukon Territory


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