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Has anyone here experienced younger siblings using discriminatory language just to annoy their older siblings, or is it just me? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by BenEarlDaMarxist@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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I'm just going to share an experience by saying that I have a younger brother (not namedropping anything) and I have regarded him in most of my life in a neutral-leaning-negative light, he's annoying sure, but he's not like really shit, or at least, I had until he started calling me a "black person", "blackie", and "monkey" (which I'm pretty sure is often compared with to black people in a really dehumanizing light) just to get a rise out of me, which first of all, is not accurate at all (I'm Asian), and second, it sounds like he was being genuinely racist against Africans just to piss me the hell off, "at the very least he isn't saying slurs" I thought to myself, months later, he recently started calling me the fucking N-word, really, really casually, just to piss me the fuck off, I don't know if he's being genuinely racist or just wanting to get a reaction out of me (I'm 75% sure it's the latter), but even then, using slurs just to get a reaction out of someone is tasteless at best, and outright derogatory at worst.

I'm just curious if anyone else has experienced the same thing as me.

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[–] ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 11 months ago

Sounds like edgy teen behavior, hopefully they don’t say anything like that in public, but if it’s just at home you may be able to explain WHY those words aren’t really funny and how they’re just lazy excuses to put other people down. There’s not a single race that doesn’t also have pejorative terms, and to have the roles flipped usually isn’t very fun.