In this time of many radqueers making new accounts and coming up with new urls for their blogs and sideblogs, I would like to remind everyone that using the term "mutt" to refer to yourself, a natal-human-bodied individual, if you are not bodily/biologically mixed race is racist.
You are not radmutt, you are not permamutt, you are not bad-mutt-needs-punishing, if you are not mixed race.
Radqueers every day already have to deal with false racism allegations, and bodily mixed individuals have to deal with their unique discrimination being silenced and erased every day. Do not be the radqueer that hurts people of colour and makes all radqueers look worse because you are using racist slurs you can't reclaim.
Note that none of the urls I used are direct jabs at anyone who has or has ever had any of these urls. I simply thought of whatever seemed like it might be "pleasing" as a url.
You may be upset reading this post, and argue that because mutt is also a term used for dogs, those who have dog related identities ought to be allowed to say it. You may feel even further in the belief that because they are both already existing words, straight people And cisgender people should be allowed to use the words "faggot" and "tranny" respectively.
I cannot argue you out of these beliefs, but please understand one thing:
Everyone already knows faggot and tranny to be slurs, most people who refer to a transmission as a tranny are very quickly educated. PLEASE understand that mixed people do not get the same grace when it comes to slurs against them. Mixed people are teased, and mocked, and ignored for expressing discomfort in hearing a word against them.
You don't fight a trans woman for being uncomfortable or upset by hearing someone repeatedly call a transmission a tranny, but many individuals do argue with mixed people for being upset with monoracial people for taking and using on themselves slurs that are not theirs to say. It is erasure.
Also, consider the connotation of the word. If you are not willing to use one of the many other words which mean dog, a large part of why is the connotation. Mutt is a little dark. It's a little dangerous, it fits it with your graveyard aesthetic and your grave/it/xite/bite/thing pronouns in that "dog baring it's teeth" kind of way (and again, this is at no shade to this grouping of pronouns, but I very often see the slur used against me in other groupings of pronouns that look just like this) how do you think it makes a mixed person feel to see the connotation you use this slur in? Is it really any different from always associating black people with chicken and basketball? You're taking a word that is a racial slur and putting a "dark, biting" connotation to it, which you may find super cool, but it's still, technically, a negative connotation.
There are words that mean dog that are not racial slurs. Please. Use them.
Please reblog this so it spreads. Please do not reboot with "tw slur", or anything of the likes, as it is very demeaning that you care when it is other slurs, but not the one we are talking about.
If you have an argument, please dm it to me instead of causing open fire in my reblogs, people do not listen to reason when they're trying to prove themselves right in front of their following, and that kind of behavior only pushes the racism further, as I am one mixed race individual asking you not to call yourself a slur you can't reclaim. Thank you
