"the adoption of slang by people who have little clue what it means is pretty irritating"

If it is known to be irritating, and obviously stigmatizes a group based on their skin color, then why do white "progressives" insist on using the term "pimping" at all, when other adequate synonyms are available, like "hawking"? They clearly prefer to use a word with color-arousing overtones.

By contrast, the word "raping" could be said to allude to violent sexual acts by men, but it does not stigmatize any particular group of men based on their skin color. The term "pimping", in contrast, is an intentional allusion to and attempted stigmatization of one discreet group based on skin-skin color.

If the use of this offensive and vulgar "diary pimping" term were not so widespread, I would not have bothered to respond to to the comment in which it was used. However, the term "diary pimping" is a perfect example of how white male progressives use loaded skin-color aroused language to marginalize and dissuade others from participating equally in the whitosphere. It is ironic that white progressives play "gotcha" when white Republicans use the word "macacca," but white progressives insist on using the ethnically offensive phrase term diary "pimping" every day of the week.

Those who continually and persistently use this term clearly exult in alluding to the worst sterotypes that have been invented to smear Black people in general. Otherwise, they would simply acknowledge that the phrase is offensive and they would stop using it.

"Only after we change that which seemed essential do we realize how natural the "new normal" really is and how inevitable it always was."

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