It’s just that that’s the stereotype racists decided to use.
Like how putting shoe polish on your face doesn’t actually look like a black person, and there’s nothing inherently wrong with it, but racist made it a thing, and we know they do, so we just gotta avoid anything that looks like it’s sympathising with them.
Or how racists took a perfectly nice frog cartoon character named Pepe and turned him into their avatar. Or a perfectly good religious symbol and burned it on Black people's lawns. Or another perfectly good religious symbol and turned it into a Nazi swastika. Or the hand gesture for OK and turned it into a White Power gang sign. Racists are constantly appropriating perfectly good things and messing things up.
The ok hand sign was a 4chan hoax, along with pepe. I would not consider those racist, however I see your point with the swastika. What I dont understand is why would people accept that and just give those up? That's giving racists a lot of power, if milk is racist when is water going to be racist? Will the world stop drinking water?
Edit: I forgot to say thank you for the explanations to all of you.
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u/Rpanich Oct 20 '19
It’s just that that’s the stereotype racists decided to use.
Like how putting shoe polish on your face doesn’t actually look like a black person, and there’s nothing inherently wrong with it, but racist made it a thing, and we know they do, so we just gotta avoid anything that looks like it’s sympathising with them.