• nomy@lemmy.zip
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      3 hours ago

      Mhm, midwest US and N***** Knocking was what we were told it was called, because of course.

      It became Ding Dong Ditch once we grew up a little.

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        Yeah this was my experience. People used the slur n***** knockin’ through all of my childhood 70s and early 80’s but as a young adult in the 90s it was doorbell ditching.

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        I grew up in a very bigoted Southern town that was still firing people from schools for being gay in the 2000s, and they still frown on interracial marriage. The N Word was a regular part of life growing up.

        We called it Ding Dong Ditch.

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          Heard that one too. And I grew up in racist state and town they had open KKK stickers on their bumpers but still never heard a racist version. Which guess I am grateful for.

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        it’s not. but you’re not the only one down there and you were, apparently, raised right. ;)

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        It apparently used to be called ni**er knocking. I’m in the rural south too, and I’ve always known it as dong, dong, ditch.

        But then again my mom was arrested at a civil rights rally (on the side of black people being equal), so my upbringing might have something to do with it.

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          Crazy! and my mom and dad are both racist, my dad more so and never heard that version. But probably more my dad being that racist to him probably frown on such behavior or more he was shelter enough never to learn of such things. He did grow up on a farm.

          I do unfortunately had tons of racist jokes told to me which sucks having those rattling around in my brain pan.