Apparently 'Motherfucker' is now racist. Only in California.
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This is totally backwards from the etymology-- which is rooted in slavery.
'Motherfuckers' would be the term slaves used to describe slave masters who slept with women who had a slave husband, effectively cucking them. Imagine the fury of the slave, watching his wife get fucked: "That motherfucker" is the sentiment.
Here's the incident's context: https://twitter.com/KNBR/status/1514133261009625091
The black man isn't really complaining about being called a motherfucker; that's equal opportunity usage of a word whose etymology says it should be used against whitey-- it's not racist, it's egalitarian. The black man is actually complaining that he's supposed to be 'controlled'-- that's the racism. Someone called out for him to be brought under control, and he complained and cried 'racism' because he was out of control and got called out. He's only using the profanity as an excuse to raise a fuss.
Can't hold a black man responsible for being out of control, not in Cali-- that's the real racism.
So... Is that from the 1800 slave trade, the 1700 slave trade, the 1500 slave trade, the 1100 slave trade, the barbary slave trade, the anno domini slave trade, the 300 BC slave trade, the 2000s slave trade, or the 2020 slave trade?
Pretty sure the guy in the twitter vid doesn't know or care about any slavery other than the American Black experience, so that's the context.
I'm certainly aware of other contexts for slavery, but both the guy complaining and the media will pretend they don't exist. They aren't particularly relevant to the American Black experience, either, except maybe for Liberia.
Why do you think they're contextually relevant when I was talking about American chattel slavery in reference to American pejoratives?