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Originally Posted by chapman1
I don't know about anyone else, but personally, I find the phrase "most ghetto thing" offensive.
Invite conversation about shoddy construction and poor taste if you want to, but to equate it to anything that comes out of poor urban areas reeks of classism and racism. It has no place here.
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Just gonna bump this. "Ghetto" being used to describe something negatively or of poor craftsmanship has a strong history of classism and racism. There are many, many other words out there that could have been used instead of "ghetto", and part of making FIRST more inclusive and welcoming to PoC and people from low income areas (which is what teams are looking for, or should be looking for), is eliminating language like this and using it in this way.