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[–]censorshipment 2 insightful - 6 fun2 insightful - 5 fun3 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

Need examples of what you're talking about. My social media consists of only Black people's comments, and they seem to be properly using fetishize and normalize.

"Normalize dads hugging their sons" is a common one on Black Instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CNizzI3h90O/?igshid=1kresgww1cgl7 ...this video shows a black step-dad hugging his black step-son. Black people want to normalize this type of black male love.

A video of a black father and his black son shooting at each other went viral, and of course antiblack racists think that's how all black fathers and black sons behave.

https://youtu.be/xnjJ4ouaW68

But of course the videos about a white father and white son shooting and killing each other didn't go viral 3 months ago.

https://youtu.be/hpNopQpbw7E

[–]lefterfield 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've been hearing anecdotes that teens/young adults are more conservative than their parents. If true, it's just the pendulum swinging back against people who push too far in one direction with crazy policies.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I think that when "normies" use those terms, it's usually going to be in the context of Critical Race Theory. Less commonly, "fetishizing" could be used in a critique of consumerism.

[–]anxietyaccount8 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I wasn't specifically talking about race, you can use it in other contexts too. It seems like these terms randomly became more popular.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In academia though, it's mainly going to be used in that context, and people will pick it up from there. It inevitably bleeds into the wider culture, and that is the job of the media, to promote the values and disseminate the favored ideas of the super-rich to the average person.

[–]usehername 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

People who talk about not "fetishizing" are usually not anti-porn. In these circles, not kinkshaming usually takes precedence. Among young people, people who don't watch porn are outliers.