• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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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.