![]() ![]() Of all the phrases on this list, I have probably heard this one used, and used it myself, more than any of the others. Here are five common phrases used in Western culture that have some seriously messed-up, racist backgrounds. However, that's not an excuse to keep from learning and thinking about what the things we say really mean, and the cultural baggage attached to them. So we can forgive ourselves for not knowing the history of every single word and phrase we use. ("Slut" and "queer" are two such terms.)īasically, English is a tricky language, and I think anyone who speaks it understands that. And sometimes, more happily, the opposite happens, and once-bigoted phrases are reclaimed and used in positive ways by the very groups they were intended to marginalize. Sometimes a perfectly innocuous phrase can be utilized by racists for their horrible agenda, tainting it. Sometimes a word's troubling origins are forgotten. ![]() And sometimes, this means that certain terms and phrases can change their meaning over time. Of course, the nature of the English language (or any language, really) is that it's almost constantly changing. Over time, we forgot about those definitions, and have gone back to using the phrases as usual - but when we do so, we're carrying their secret racist history with us. While that's horrible, it's also not the end of the story - many common phrases we use every day, which did not have initially racist origins, were then repurposed to have racist meanings somewhere along the line. But what I didn't know until recently is that in the U.S., a lot of our most popular phrases have racist origins. In the coming days, several news sites published articles about the new photographs of Chloe, including BuzzFeed, Bustle and Seventeen.Have you ever used a common phrase, one you've heard a thousand times before, and suddenly wondered, "Where did that expression even come from, anyway?" I know I have. That day, Twitter user tweeted the photographs of Chloe along with the caption "Y'all look at my girl Chloe all grown up." Within 72 hours, the tweet gained over 105,000 likes and 41,000 retweets. On May 22nd, 2017, the Instagram posted photographs of Chloe visiting Google in Sao Paulo, Brazil (shown below). ![]() On November 13th, BuzzFeed reported on the parody phenomenon in an image compilation post titled "Side-Eyeing Chloe Is Officially The Patron Saint Of Tumblr." On September 24th, BuzzFeed picked up on Lee's GIF photo set in a post titled "Girl Reacting To Disneyland Is The Only Reaction You’ll Need For Anything Ever." On November 1st, Tumblr user Yungbasedblogger uploaded a reaction image based on a screenshot of Chloe's reaction with the caption "could u fucking not," racking up over 120,000 notes in two weeks.īy November 5th, a single topic blog named Chloe Queen of Everything had been launched to showcase a series of photoshopped images featuring the face of Chloe on celebrities. On September 18th, Tumblr user Lee submitted an animated GIF photo set of highlights from the YouTube video, including one of Chloe reacting to her sister's crying, with the caption "i just love this because chloe is like 'da hell is this girl cryin about.'" In less than a month, the post gained more than 895,700 notes. ![]() As the older sister, Lily, breaks into tears of joy, Chloe is briefly seen on camera with a disturbed look on her face. On September 12th, 2013, YouTuber KAftC uploaded a video titled "Lily's Disneyland Surprise… AGAIN," which shows two sisters, Lily and Chloe, reacting to the news of a surprise trip to Disneyland on their way to school. ![]()
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