If Trump had said “You got a Japanese boy coming over here" to win the Masters・・・・

 

I'm just laughing to myself thinking about the outrage that would have flowed if Trump had said something like that.

— Jay (@dawgs4ever) April 16, 2021

 

エクスキューズミー？？ https://t.co/2wZxUygqNh

— Kダブシャイン🎤 (@kw5hine) April 17, 2021

わたし、この『boy』をレイシズムだと分かるKダブシャインさんの英語感覚は正しいと思う。良くわかっている。

— buvery (@buvery) April 18, 2021

日本語でも、大人に対して、「アメリカ坊やがやってきて、講道館で優勝した」とか言ったら・・議論を呼ぶだろうなあ。

Terms You Might Not Know Are Considered Racist

Boy

In most situations, the word "boy" is not a problem. Used to describe a Black man, however, the word is troublesome. That's because historically, White people routinely described Black men as boys to suggest they weren't on equal footing with them. Both during and after enslavement, Black people weren't viewed as full-fledged people but as mentally, physically, and spiritually inferior beings to White people. Calling Black men "boys" was one way to express the racist ideologies of yesteryear.

Despite its widespread use as a racial putdown, in Ash v. Tyson Foods, the U.S. Court of Appeals decided that "boy" cannot be considered a racial slur unless it's prefaced with a racial marker such as "Black." This decision has sparked controversy, considering that White people typically didn't call anyone "Black boys" during Jim Crow, but simply "boys."

The good news, according to Prerna Lal of Change.org, is that the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the holding, ruling that "the use of the word 'boy' on its own is not enough evidence of racial animus, but that the word is also not benign." That means the court is willing to consider the context in which "boy" is used to determine if it's being uttered as a racial epithet.

文脈による、と。 

今回の場合も悪気はなかったかもしれんが、トランプさんが言ってたら、リベラルメディアは総攻撃してただろうね。

日本記事書いている外国特派員は何も指摘しないのだろうか？