Do we set boundaries within conversations without silencing others, especially marginalized people? In discussion with your classmates, consider examples of tone policing you’ve seen or experienced. How could these conversations have proceeded better?
“One of the benefits of slang is its ability to provide layers of meaning understood within particular groups. When the pop singer Nicki Minaj asked fellow pop star Miley Cyrus “What’s good?” during her 2015 MTV Video Music Awards Acceptance Speech—after Cyrus had criticized Minaj’s diagnosis of racism within the music industry as “not polite”—it […]