News and Politics, are Blacks Human edition

[minoanmiss]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/opinion-laura-loomer-knew-what-she-was-doing-when-she-called-kamala-harris-shaniqua/ar-AA1reSbs?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=e0f29b07499c4f31afc781500056fe89&ei=51


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-democrats-laugh-at-gop-leader-s-defense-of-republican-behind-racist-anti-haitian-tweet/ar-AA1rd1Dn?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=eb1e2f9592994879bbbe112c55d0aaea&ei=20


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/op-ed-why-i-don-t-plan-to-raise-my-black-children-in-the-us/ar-AA1jo4XD?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=7d47e9ad1f3a4333f07b4dc92193b6af&ei=15

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/opinion-white-house-insider-black-republicans-are-being-used-as-maga-tools-and-making-fools-of-themselves-in-the-process/ar-AA1r38Ui?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=267b2b27311b413eb2abcc0e128a6f32&ei=3

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

TURNOUT TURNOUT TURNOUT.

Fingers and toes crossed.

[ororo]

I did not know Shaniqua was used as derogatory until now. I just thought it was a pretty name.

I've had an intern from Shanghai and my BA is as well, both had Anglo names on their resumes. One was happy to use her given name when she worked for me. The other seems to prefer her Anglo name, as does another project manager on my team who is Taiwanese.

If we can learn to pronounce Tchaikovsky, we can learn to pronounce Kamala.

[full_metal_ox]

Tiny little children somehow manage to memorize and correctly pronounce the names of hundreds of Pokémon and dinosaur species, not to mention Italian Renaissance artists by way of the Ninja Turtles.

[minoanmiss]

It's not quite that Shaniqua is not a name, but... calling Kamala Harris "Shaniqua" is just like calling Sonia Sotomayor "Maria", which I saw many conservatives do. It's saying "you are all so interchangeable and lacking in interior lives I can just call you ANy Common Name From Your Group because your group isn't real people anyway. Here's a common/stereotypical name. Suck on that, inferior lifeform."

One thing I liked about the school where I worked was that when we got a student who at first told us she wanted to be called Alice, she became so comfortable with us that she admitted that her last school renamed her Alice because they didn't want to deal with her Chinese name, and we all assured her we would. And we did.

Ah, names.

[ororo]

Thank you.

[full_metal_ox]

It's not quite that Shaniqua is not a name, but... calling Kamala Harris "Shaniqua" is just like calling Sonia Sotomayor "Maria", which I saw many conservatives do. It's saying "you are all so interchangeable and lacking in interior lives I can just call you ANy Common Name From Your Group because your group isn't real people anyway. Here's a common/stereotypical name. Suck on that, inferior lifeform.

And there are even situations where that’s become official protocol: “George” used to be the prescribed form of address for Black Pullman porters (after (White)CEO and founder George Pullman—a Master-assigned name), and “Pedro” the official generic name for (originally Latino) staffers at the old hotel-cum-theme park South of the Border.

[minoanmiss]

ugh, so true. I was horrified when I found out they did that to the porters.

[anna_wing]

I recall being told that by convention in England, in the 18th-19th century, footmen in wealthy or aristocratic houses were called 'James', 'John', 'Charles' or 'Frederick', regardless of their actual names.

It's common for people of Chinese origin or ancestry in Southeast Asia to have both a Chinese name and a name that fits the local prevailing culture. In some countries it was/is compulsory.

[lokifan]

It's common for Chinese kids to have "English names" as well - they're often assigned in English classes in China to the kids. (Not just China - this happened where I taught in Vietnam, too.) Though the 'English' names do end up as nicknames used by family/friends at times; teaching mostly-Chinese international students at a British university this summer, part of what we discussed is that it can actually be kind of patronising to assume a person thinks of their Chinese name as their 'real' name.