TigerBlue4Ever
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RE: Michigan State Education Conference Separates ‘White Folx’ and ‘People of Color’
(04-22-2021 08:44 PM)Hernando Hills Tiger Wrote: (04-22-2021 05:24 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote: (04-22-2021 09:37 AM)Hernando Hills Tiger Wrote: (04-22-2021 09:15 AM)Danforth Wrote: What the heck are "white folx"?
"folx" is apparently a term used on social media.
When I see something I don't understand, which is a lot these days, I look it up to educate myself.
You should try it.
Which dictionary/encyclopedia did you find that in?
How about this?
The yt in yt folx appears to stem from the slang term whitey. Whitey, evidenced since at least the 1830s, has been used by black Americans to disparage white people, especially implying oppression and racial discrimination. By at the early 2000s online, whitey was spelled phonetically at yt.
Black slang has a history of alternate spellings (cf. phat or thicc), and folx, for folks, seems to follow in this vein. We should note that elsewhere in culture, folx serves as a gender-neutral way to refer to members of or signal identity in the LGBTQ community.
Together, yt folx became a slang phrase for “white folks” by the mid-2000s. It’s evidenced on 2006 on Twitter, the year the platform began, and thus likely had been in use in black internet spaces before it.
Why do YT folx believe that holding the door for you (especially when you’re a mile away) is gonnna solve systemic oppression?
Ha. Excellent.
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