I honestly never understood how it is not considered racist for someone to call someone else that.
For those of you that don't know... "white washed" is the term used to describe someone that is non-white who, yes, yes this is the serious meaning, dresses in clean, maintained attire and not baggy jeans or "ghetto fab" attire, speaks proper English, listens to non-rap/hip-hop, is concerned about things like politics, education or anything other than "gang culture" related things and has a job, or goes to school, or owns a regular car.
If someone meets most of those conditions and they are non-white, they are considered white washed and I seriously don't understand how it's not racist to imply that speaking Proper English, concern for education and so on is a characteristic exclusive to whites. There's just something so wrong about the usage of the term that I honestly do think less of people that seriously apply it to those that aren't white.
Then OP should have made it clear that was the meaning (s)he was talking about. Because it might not be the first thing that comes to mind except for racists and people who have to deal with them.
Is it normal to hate the term "white washed"?
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I honestly never understood how it is not considered racist for someone to call someone else that.
For those of you that don't know... "white washed" is the term used to describe someone that is non-white who, yes, yes this is the serious meaning, dresses in clean, maintained attire and not baggy jeans or "ghetto fab" attire, speaks proper English, listens to non-rap/hip-hop, is concerned about things like politics, education or anything other than "gang culture" related things and has a job, or goes to school, or owns a regular car.
If someone meets most of those conditions and they are non-white, they are considered white washed and I seriously don't understand how it's not racist to imply that speaking Proper English, concern for education and so on is a characteristic exclusive to whites. There's just something so wrong about the usage of the term that I honestly do think less of people that seriously apply it to those that aren't white.
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Then OP should have made it clear that was the meaning (s)he was talking about. Because it might not be the first thing that comes to mind except for racists and people who have to deal with them.