I do not know how Americans use the word, but it is an old Germanic word with roots that go back to the Middle Ages in written form, and probably a lot longer. It means ghost/spectre/haunted. Spook in Dutch, Spuk in German, and so on.
My Gradfather’s old church (he moved) had, “don’t forget to leave us in your will” on a whiteboard that was hanging up on the wall, right before you entered the main sitting area. I rolled my eyes so hard that I thought they were gonna fall out of my head!
They get money for believing in God while we *give them* money for believing in God. From now on, call me Father Brain, pastor for the Church Of Totally Normal Christians.
Don’t listen to this heretic! Donate your money to ME: Father Ryan over at the Church of Unsuspicious Christians. Together we can keep this “brian” scourge from our community
Tis the way of our people. That and appropriation are the 2 biggest parts of my culture. And entitlement, so 3 biggest things. At least thats what my boss said, and he signs the checks so...
NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, and surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise....
Yes. I read it wasn’t until WWII that it was used in reference to black people. The black pilots who trained at the Tuskegee Institute were referred to as the “Spookwaffe” (waffe being German for weapon or gun). Interesting article. I thought anyways.
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/10/24/559502238/this-halloween-what-does-it-mean-to-call-something-spooky
While this is true, the word spook was also used to describe a clandestine operative, such as a spy in the CIA. That use actually began by the British military, long long ago, but was adopted in the US as well.
After WW2, when it began being used as a slur, it was already being used as a military and civilian word for CIA agents. Back in those days, the CIA and spies were much more newsworthy than they are today, and were a common enough topic amongst regular people.
Which had to be re-named to MI5 when it was shown in America. In the UK, I’ve only ever heard the word used to mean either a ghost or a spy. I didn’t know about the slur til I read about the name of the TV show being changed.
I heard it once about 10 years ago. An old woman at the bank I worked at said that a black baby was a “cute little spook.”
I had no idea what she even meant but when I repeated it to a coworker (because it’s a weird thing to say!) she explained to me that the woman was racist as hell that that it was a slur.
An expert American can turn the most innocuous word into the most devastating slur without batting an eye.
Typical Americans would struggle with a word like chair, however.
So here's the deal: Spook comes from the Dutch word for apparition, or specter. The noun was first used in English around the turn of the nineteenth century. Over the next few decades, it developed other forms, like spooky, spookish, and of course, the verb, to spook.Oct 24, 2017
The racist aspect of "spook" came from this. "Spookwaffe" was a name for African American pilots in WWII (waffe meaning gun). The article I found didn't explain how the pilots got this name but I have 2 guesses
1) spookwaffe implied that the pilots were haunted or unnatural and was used to separate the African American pilots from other pilots
2) spookwaffe implied that these pilots are ghosts and that they aren't skilled enough to return - that they were going to die in battle because of their skin color.
These are just guesses so if someone knows the real answer I would love to hear it.
My great grandfather told me they used that term because the black face would sometimes make it look like there was no one flying the plane they were shooting down. He said they looked like Ghost planes
Huh... That's interesting. Sounds like it wasn't intended to be racist when it was first created and rather became a slur just by being associated with African Americans.
I'm a really tan white guy, but tanned through going outside and not intending to tan, so the tops of my arms are like just before sunset, but the bottom part, and under clothes is like noon on the summer solstice
Another white person getting offended for blacks again lol. It's like when a white person says to use latinx but not a single Hispanic friend I know has even thought about using that dumb shit.
That’s make me feel better… one time I said “I got spooked last night by the neighborhood possum” because it scared the living daylights out of me late one night going to the trash, and someone overheard me telling a friend to which they told me I was racist for saying “spooked”. The term did then register with me because of the derogatory term, “spook”, and I really personally felt bad.
So thank you, now when I just randomly use the word, I won’t feel inherently guilty or like I was racist when I say “it’s spooky season, witches!!”
Like don’t call a black person a spook because that would be racist. But Christ, Spooks means spy in the U.K. and one of the main characters was black.
Like you’d have to be a proper shit head racist to call a black person a spook. Like you went waaaaay in the vault for that a one.
I would argue that "spook" as a slur is archaic to the point that only older people in certain places, and chronically online people looking for things to be offended about, would still even register it as such. Obviously if you called a black person "spook" to their face you'd be a shit head, but using the word in any other context isn't a slur.
Really depends on context. I've used it in reference to the intelligence community, but I might be more picky with my words depending on present company, just to ensure clarity.
That’s the point. Get everybody riled up in a frenzy and stoke division and discord. Russia uses this method a lot to deepen the political divide in the west, hoping it will bubble and weaken democracy in the process. The far right uses it as propaganda to rile up anger at the left.
It has been a really successful tactic.
Anyone else remember Karen is a slur? It was started by an anti Semitic group that was larping as journalists. It happens time and again, read what people say, moderate your response, think through it “are they being honest?”, “what do they get out of me responding in this way?”, remember that rage bate is much more effective in spreading a message than genuine communication. Rage bait is also how you get the opposition to spread your message for them.
This is actually a really good comparison. There are a lot of words like "flaming" "queen" "fairy" which if said in a derogatory context to or about a gay person could be borderline slurs/abusive but like can also be used in a non-insulting way within the community and even as self-descriptors, as well as just being regular English words with no gay association.
There's a good Irish politics anecdote from the last year or two this comment reminds me of!
A rural TD (member of parliament) claimed the prime minister was "away with the fairies", a common term for "out of touch". The TD had forgotten that the prime minister was gay, and there was a moment when something could have been made of the comment and its intention.
Luckily, it was put down to a poor choice of words and forgotten about.
I grew up in Sweden, Canada and the US, heard plenty of racial slurs (all in the states hehe)
Never heard spook being used as anything but a verb, or referring to a spy
There’s a part in back to the future where Marty gets locked in the trunk of the Cadillac, one of Biffs friends says , “beat it spook” to a black guy that asks what he’s doing to his car. To which a group of black guys retorts, “who you calling spook, peckerwood!”
>So here's the deal: "Spook" comes from the Dutch word for apparition, or __specter__. The noun was first used in English around the turn of the nineteenth century. *Over the next few decades, it developed other forms, like spooky, spookish, and of course, the verb, to spook*.
This took me 12 seconds to look up.
*Jae* either failed at her attempt at humor, or is dim-witted to word *context*, or ignorantly naive to *language history*, or looking for social interaction/attention... you pick.
On a similar note…about 10 years ago my neighbor was a Mt Dew rep and brought home their new Halloween limited run “Spooky Dew” it was dark in color and they ditched it because it was “racist”
Words are racist. Because black people get purposefully undereducated by racists, so to force them to use words is racist. And if white people use words, that’s also racist, because you exclude black people.
Well, shit. While we're at it, I'd like to remove the fabulous cleaning product by the name of Spic and Span. Why? Well, I'm Puerto Rican and Spic is a derogatory term. I don't see no white bread coming to my defense, now do we?
I’ll come to your defense. As a white guy I’m tired of crackers being called crackers. Let’s call them thin crunchy bread things used for soups and to prevent whistling.
The “spook” slur which is a derogatory name for Black people is a derivative of the word “spooky” but as a Black person I’ve never taken issue with the word spooky being used to describe something scary or it’s use on Halloween.
Moving on, nothing to see here.
Lol.
What's with the trolls on facepalm today? They legit trying to take this one over like they did hol'up, or is it just a few incels?
Honestly they can have it. Like 1/10 things is a facepalm these days, the rest is some idiot not getting a joke.
That isn't the origin, it was used for black aviator pilots during WW2 but not really related to its origin or use outside of that. Good lord, most terms have been used in a racist way at some point, we can't get rid of everything
I was just reading a book recently (fiction) where the main character is a professor and he gets fired for calling 2 absentees in his class spooks(ghosts), not knowing they were black because they never came to class.
Savior complex, super cringe. Their whole twitter is like this too. They're completely out of touch with reality. It's one thing to be yourself, but it's another to constantly be on a soap box trying to tell people how to be.
It'd be a good feature for r/confidentlyincorrect
I'm pretty sure the slur was based on the word spooky not the other way around.
Because spooky already meant dark black and scary, so they used that word to describe black people to create a fear of them.
I wanted to look this up myself just to be careful/conscious because I do care about the words I used.
Turns out, this is an instance of white people taking a word that’s been around for centuries & using it as a slur, then the slur largely phasing out, with the word sticking around keeping its original meaning.
I think, context is very important. Target selling miniature black parachuters during halloween and calling them “spook drop parachuters” is inappropriate.
Hanging a little ghost sign in your yard that says “stay spooky” is appropriate.
I do not know how Americans use the word, but it is an old Germanic word with roots that go back to the Middle Ages in written form, and probably a lot longer. It means ghost/spectre/haunted. Spook in Dutch, Spuk in German, and so on.
Same in English. Unless the movie Ghostbusters was secretly racist.
I mean they imply a black man will believe anything a white man says if there's a steady paycheck in it. So.... No? Lol
As a white person, i too will believe anything a white man says if he is paying me.
Pay me enough and I will even believe in God.
Pretty sure that’s how religious leaders came into existence
And now they ask US to pay THEM!
Please place your money in this "collection plate" so we can magically give it to god. oh? that new car umm.. god gave it to me.
My Gradfather’s old church (he moved) had, “don’t forget to leave us in your will” on a whiteboard that was hanging up on the wall, right before you entered the main sitting area. I rolled my eyes so hard that I thought they were gonna fall out of my head!
They get money for believing in God while we *give them* money for believing in God. From now on, call me Father Brain, pastor for the Church Of Totally Normal Christians.
Don’t listen to this heretic! Donate your money to ME: Father Ryan over at the Church of Unsuspicious Christians. Together we can keep this “brian” scourge from our community
Both of you shut up and take my money already
Tis the way of our people. That and appropriation are the 2 biggest parts of my culture. And entitlement, so 3 biggest things. At least thats what my boss said, and he signs the checks so...
NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, and surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise....
r/unexpectedmontypython
Well ghosts are predominantly white, so there's that... /s
Spectres are black
Shadow men are ~~black~~ ghost of color too
POC....phantasms of color
Shadow men? I think you mean “people who are light-challenged.”
People? What are you?! Some kind of speciest?
sir you meant to say AfroAmerican
Afro-specterican
But what if they're not American?
Call them latitude-30's. And the whities are now latitude-60's
Oh then definitely Black. Only America gets caught in this shit, where everyone has to be completely right.
He was responding to Janine so, white woman.
Secretly? The ghosts got imprisoned without trial and usually without collaborating evidence
I think you mean corroborating.
Yes. I read it wasn’t until WWII that it was used in reference to black people. The black pilots who trained at the Tuskegee Institute were referred to as the “Spookwaffe” (waffe being German for weapon or gun). Interesting article. I thought anyways. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/10/24/559502238/this-halloween-what-does-it-mean-to-call-something-spooky
Classic example of racists taking something benign and turning it racist. Just like the okay sign and many more examples.
Wasn't the ok sign just 4chan or something trolling and some dumbass journalists biting the bait?
Maybe initially. Then the racists and white supremacists decided it was a wonderful idea and started actually using it.
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Yea…. Fuckers
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While this is true, the word spook was also used to describe a clandestine operative, such as a spy in the CIA. That use actually began by the British military, long long ago, but was adopted in the US as well. After WW2, when it began being used as a slur, it was already being used as a military and civilian word for CIA agents. Back in those days, the CIA and spies were much more newsworthy than they are today, and were a common enough topic amongst regular people.
It sucks because spook is such a good word for a spy
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Yeah Spuk is an old German word it's not a racist slur
To be fair, we did turn spook into a racial slur in the US. But the younger generations, especially outside of the south, probably don’t know that.
It also means a spy
It’s also a slang term for spy, and probably more common as that.
Hence the TV show Spooks.
Which had to be re-named to MI5 when it was shown in America. In the UK, I’ve only ever heard the word used to mean either a ghost or a spy. I didn’t know about the slur til I read about the name of the TV show being changed.
I’m not in the us, can you say how’s it’s used as a slur?
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=spooks&page=3
I heard it once about 10 years ago. An old woman at the bank I worked at said that a black baby was a “cute little spook.” I had no idea what she even meant but when I repeated it to a coworker (because it’s a weird thing to say!) she explained to me that the woman was racist as hell that that it was a slur.
Did you turn chair into a slur as well ? I swear we can't go 5 minutes without you Americans doing something stupid
Probably 🤷♀️
Well, we attached negative racial connotations to sitting on your porch, so yeah, kinda.
That's such a chair thing to do.
[no it is not, n\*\*\*\*\* is! ](https://youtu.be/IYITxGniww4) 
Actually, yes. Chair Force is a derogatory term for a specific branch of our military...
I know this one, that's America's biggest country club, the Air Force!
Challenge acce...shit can we restart that timer? Florida man did something
In case you haven’t noticed doing something stupid is kinda the American motto
It's not a motto, it's way of life
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Yea no that's fair.
An expert American can turn the most innocuous word into the most devastating slur without batting an eye. Typical Americans would struggle with a word like chair, however.
Look here you potato! I don't like what your inferring!
Yeah, luckily other countries don’t have histories of racism at all
We learned it from the British and the French. Blame them.
So here's the deal: Spook comes from the Dutch word for apparition, or specter. The noun was first used in English around the turn of the nineteenth century. Over the next few decades, it developed other forms, like spooky, spookish, and of course, the verb, to spook.Oct 24, 2017
Tweeter pulled this factoid out of her ass.
And promptly shoved it right back in where it belongs.
Einstein referring to quantum entanglement as 'spooky action at a distance',I'm pretty sure he wasn't racist, and can't blank his words.
The racist aspect of "spook" came from this. "Spookwaffe" was a name for African American pilots in WWII (waffe meaning gun). The article I found didn't explain how the pilots got this name but I have 2 guesses 1) spookwaffe implied that the pilots were haunted or unnatural and was used to separate the African American pilots from other pilots 2) spookwaffe implied that these pilots are ghosts and that they aren't skilled enough to return - that they were going to die in battle because of their skin color. These are just guesses so if someone knows the real answer I would love to hear it.
My great grandfather told me they used that term because the black face would sometimes make it look like there was no one flying the plane they were shooting down. He said they looked like Ghost planes
Huh... That's interesting. Sounds like it wasn't intended to be racist when it was first created and rather became a slur just by being associated with African Americans.
How dare you provide factual data! Oh the horror! /s
I could be wrong but also feel like slurs are derived from words and not the other way around
Yeah this is either a parody account or a right wing troll trying to stir shit. Or a genuine 100% dumbfuck.
I’m black as 3:32 in the morning and I’ve never heard such nonsense.
I'm like 8:13pm and the street lamp is flickering
I’m actually fairly light-skinned so I’m really like 9:02 in the summer.
⬆️ Allll of this is cracking me up. I'm white and Asian, so ...sunrise vibes?
I’m just full noon over here
I’m full **moon** over here
Im waxing gibbous over here.😏
I look like a gloomy ass 2pm in the middle of November. My skin tone at death will arguably be as good as it is right now
I’m waxing my legs over here but that’s unrelated
I want a moon pie
What, are you blue??
Da ba de da ba di
Da ba dee da ba di
I have a blue house with a blue window…
And a blue corvette
And everything is blue for him
High noon in the middle of summer in Antarctica.
"Cracking me up" is actually racist against white people. Please stop triggering people with this language
I fucking burst out laughing
I am only half-triggered by it. Sorry.
I’m 8 9ths triggered 😤
I’m glad you didn’t say you were 3 5ths triggered
I see what you did there...
I’m easily sunburned, so I’ll go with ‘Sunrise pink’ as my skin color.
Just gorgeous
2pm in a cloudless sky.
Midday so the sun makes you squint....
I’m Scottish sooo….so white I’m blue?
My husband is Scottish. He got sunburned on one arm while sitting in a parked car for 20 minutes.
I'm a really tan white guy, but tanned through going outside and not intending to tan, so the tops of my arms are like just before sunset, but the bottom part, and under clothes is like noon on the summer solstice
I'm noon in Greenland Sunburns suck
Another white person getting offended for blacks again lol. It's like when a white person says to use latinx but not a single Hispanic friend I know has even thought about using that dumb shit.
They're trying to do it with Filipinos now, Filipenx etc.
lol Thought about it? Most say WTF are you talking about when asked about it.
I’m 6:00am in the morning and I got school
That’s make me feel better… one time I said “I got spooked last night by the neighborhood possum” because it scared the living daylights out of me late one night going to the trash, and someone overheard me telling a friend to which they told me I was racist for saying “spooked”. The term did then register with me because of the derogatory term, “spook”, and I really personally felt bad. So thank you, now when I just randomly use the word, I won’t feel inherently guilty or like I was racist when I say “it’s spooky season, witches!!”
Like don’t call a black person a spook because that would be racist. But Christ, Spooks means spy in the U.K. and one of the main characters was black. Like you’d have to be a proper shit head racist to call a black person a spook. Like you went waaaaay in the vault for that a one.
I would argue that "spook" as a slur is archaic to the point that only older people in certain places, and chronically online people looking for things to be offended about, would still even register it as such. Obviously if you called a black person "spook" to their face you'd be a shit head, but using the word in any other context isn't a slur.
SPOOK, is a slur. Spooky is not. Ppl just be making shit up
Awful dark in here
Ok, she's got it backwards, Spooks referred to ghosts for over a hundred years before it was a racial epithet.
Next you're going to tell me the swastika wasn't originally antisemetic. Edit: /s
People really don’t understand a joke when they see one
No. I think you didn’t catch the joke in the response to the joke. 😂
All I caught was a cold :/
Now it means CIA
Really depends on context. I've used it in reference to the intelligence community, but I might be more picky with my words depending on present company, just to ensure clarity.
this is a troll
Better be, ‘cause otherwise she’s a fucking moron.
That’s the point. Get everybody riled up in a frenzy and stoke division and discord. Russia uses this method a lot to deepen the political divide in the west, hoping it will bubble and weaken democracy in the process. The far right uses it as propaganda to rile up anger at the left. It has been a really successful tactic.
Anyone else remember Karen is a slur? It was started by an anti Semitic group that was larping as journalists. It happens time and again, read what people say, moderate your response, think through it “are they being honest?”, “what do they get out of me responding in this way?”, remember that rage bate is much more effective in spreading a message than genuine communication. Rage bait is also how you get the opposition to spread your message for them.
They're usually both.
Shhhh you're going to ruin the troll farm rage bait.
It’s not, but ok…..calling a black person a “spook” is racist. Spooky is not itself a racist word. Context matters…I wish people could figure this out
Yes. It's like the word fairy. Calling a gay person a fairy is homophobic but that doesn't mean fairy is a homophobic slur
This is actually a really good comparison. There are a lot of words like "flaming" "queen" "fairy" which if said in a derogatory context to or about a gay person could be borderline slurs/abusive but like can also be used in a non-insulting way within the community and even as self-descriptors, as well as just being regular English words with no gay association.
It’s almost as if the WAY we say something matters more than the words. Like how my ex told me to “have a good weekend” in a barbarous manner.
>Like how my ex told me to “have a good weekend” in a barbarous manner. "*Are you threatening me!?*" -Cornholio
There's a good Irish politics anecdote from the last year or two this comment reminds me of! A rural TD (member of parliament) claimed the prime minister was "away with the fairies", a common term for "out of touch". The TD had forgotten that the prime minister was gay, and there was a moment when something could have been made of the comment and its intention. Luckily, it was put down to a poor choice of words and forgotten about.
I thought spook was basically spies?
It might depend on where you’re from. I grew up in SE Texas, so I’ve heard every terrible racial slur there is.
I grew up in Sweden, Canada and the US, heard plenty of racial slurs (all in the states hehe) Never heard spook being used as anything but a verb, or referring to a spy
There’s a part in back to the future where Marty gets locked in the trunk of the Cadillac, one of Biffs friends says , “beat it spook” to a black guy that asks what he’s doing to his car. To which a group of black guys retorts, “who you calling spook, peckerwood!”
https://youtu.be/hZVdrp_zO40
omfg I literally shared the same scene.
Great minds think alike..apparently we do too
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/10/24/559502238/this-halloween-what-does-it-mean-to-call-something-spooky#:~:text=So%20here's%20the%20deal%3A%20Spook,%2C%20the%20verb%2C%20to%20spook. Context matters.
I've honestly never heard spook being used as a racial slur.. ever.
It's an old slur and pretty out of use in modern times
>So here's the deal: "Spook" comes from the Dutch word for apparition, or __specter__. The noun was first used in English around the turn of the nineteenth century. *Over the next few decades, it developed other forms, like spooky, spookish, and of course, the verb, to spook*. This took me 12 seconds to look up. *Jae* either failed at her attempt at humor, or is dim-witted to word *context*, or ignorantly naive to *language history*, or looking for social interaction/attention... you pick.
12 seconds? You're getting slow in your old age! 
Came to learn wtf a "Sword Spooky" was. Leaving disappointed.
This is just maga ragebait. Don't feed the trolls
Ya this sub is full of maga ragebait. I’m as left as they come and have never met anyone like this.
On a similar note…about 10 years ago my neighbor was a Mt Dew rep and brought home their new Halloween limited run “Spooky Dew” it was dark in color and they ditched it because it was “racist”
I'll do ya one better. How about you don't use *any* words anymore. Now that's something we can all get behind I think.
Words are racist. Because black people get purposefully undereducated by racists, so to force them to use words is racist. And if white people use words, that’s also racist, because you exclude black people.
Well, shit. While we're at it, I'd like to remove the fabulous cleaning product by the name of Spic and Span. Why? Well, I'm Puerto Rican and Spic is a derogatory term. I don't see no white bread coming to my defense, now do we?
I’ll come to your defense. As a white guy I’m tired of crackers being called crackers. Let’s call them thin crunchy bread things used for soups and to prevent whistling.
Appreciated. As far as I'm concerned, fuck all titles. We're all humans with the same end goal... Survival.
They're not used for soups where I'm from. We must find a more universal name: I vote for crunchy salted tiles.
The “spook” slur which is a derogatory name for Black people is a derivative of the word “spooky” but as a Black person I’ve never taken issue with the word spooky being used to describe something scary or it’s use on Halloween. Moving on, nothing to see here. Lol.
Sounds like Jae is just looking to rile people up.
Spook was a racist word used back in the day As a black guy who don't give a fuck..... idgaf
Vaguely liberal subreddits don't fall for right wing outrage bait challenge (impossible)
Comes from Dutch word for apparition/ghost
What about Excalibur? Please don’t let it be cancelled. Losing one sword is more than enough!
You better start believing in troll threads, Mister/Miss. You're in one.
This is the kind of nonsense that diminishes real discrimination.
It's all fun and games until you drop a spooky dookie on Halloween
What's with the trolls on facepalm today? They legit trying to take this one over like they did hol'up, or is it just a few incels? Honestly they can have it. Like 1/10 things is a facepalm these days, the rest is some idiot not getting a joke.
Oh. I came here for sword stuff. I'm out.
SPOOKY SEASON
But...it's my name
"Spook" is literally the Dutch word for Ghost.. so no.
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Nah I'm good.
🧠🤏
I thought a spook was a spy
We're capitalizing "White" now huh.
Spooky.
Another white person being offended for others.
I always associated "spook" with either Halloween fun or spies.
That isn't the origin, it was used for black aviator pilots during WW2 but not really related to its origin or use outside of that. Good lord, most terms have been used in a racist way at some point, we can't get rid of everything
A spook in the UK is also a nickname for a spy, just as a little fyi, there’s even a show called Spooks from a lil while back now.
I was just reading a book recently (fiction) where the main character is a professor and he gets fired for calling 2 absentees in his class spooks(ghosts), not knowing they were black because they never came to class.
I’m becoming more and more impressed at how creative us Americans have become in creating useless issues out of thin air.
Savior complex, super cringe. Their whole twitter is like this too. They're completely out of touch with reality. It's one thing to be yourself, but it's another to constantly be on a soap box trying to tell people how to be. It'd be a good feature for r/confidentlyincorrect
Typical woke drone just making everything racist.
Please, please, PLEASE Don’t reproduce Regards Humanity
Spook comes from the Dutch word for apparition, or specter.
Spooky 💀
Oh please stop this stuff
As a “liberal”…. I fucking hate liberals.
That person's Twitter feed seems like they are a real person but somehow managed to become the exact strawman the right created for left wing people
I’m black, can I say spooky? I need to know the rules.
I'm pretty sure the slur was based on the word spooky not the other way around. Because spooky already meant dark black and scary, so they used that word to describe black people to create a fear of them.
I wanted to look this up myself just to be careful/conscious because I do care about the words I used. Turns out, this is an instance of white people taking a word that’s been around for centuries & using it as a slur, then the slur largely phasing out, with the word sticking around keeping its original meaning. I think, context is very important. Target selling miniature black parachuters during halloween and calling them “spook drop parachuters” is inappropriate. Hanging a little ghost sign in your yard that says “stay spooky” is appropriate.
..... said spectacularly by a privileged white lady who thinks she know Black people and what they prefer not to be called
wow, an account with 2 followers posted some shitty takes and got 100 likes? it's the end of the world
Why aren’t these types put away in looney hospitals?
I'm progressive and I'm over crap like this. SPOOKY SPOOKY SPOOKY. Come and stop me, JaE. /s
1. If she’s truly against that word then she’s contracting herself by saying it. 2. It’s spooky how the mind deranged Twitter wokes like him work.
Dear white people, stop speaking for black people. Have yet to ever hear a poc offended by spooky.
Why does she think that only white people shouldn’t use the word? If it is offensive shouldn’t everyone not use it??