• wsweg@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        “Boy” has historically been used in a belittling way towards black people in the US.

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          On the flip side, black boys and teens are often referred to as older than they are, hence “young man”. I’m guessing in the pigs’ minds it’s so they rationalize their disgusting and inhumane treatment

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      It’s almost as if the English language has multiple ways to say a young person. Like say…young person…kid…child…pre teen…teen…I could go on but I think I made my point which is it was intentional to downplay the police being useless pieces of shit.

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      If only there were other words to describe him… Oh, wait! I just thought of these off the top of my head:

      • minor
      • child
      • adolescent
      • teenager
      • juvenile
      • etc…

      There’s also kid, young person, son, youth, youngster, teen, preteen, tween, highschooler, and more.