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Saying "good morning" is a racist symbol of white oppression.

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Saying "good morning" is a racist symbol of white oppression.
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1779855817040126069

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This is not true. However, a viral TikTok says differently, saying that the term "good morning" was a term depicted by slave owners who would say "good mourning" to slaves after they had killed another slave. It has been proven that the term "morning" originated not in colonial times or slavery. "Morning" and "Mourning" are homophones, which are words that sound the same but have different meanings, spellings, and origins. So this is NOT true. 

Source: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/good-morning-mocked-slaves/

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Saying good morning isn't a racist symbol of white oppression.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/fact-check-posts-claim-saying-155000707.html

This was uploaded to Tik Tok and X, which are not necessarily check for facts. The report I obtained is from YahooNews.

Likely misinformation.
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by (190 points)

It's a form of manners, not every term has to be linked to a form of oppression. When we oppress words and deprive their meaning of colonization, we can never heal from the past. Saying Good morning in society isn't targeting nor degrading a group. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnthropology/comments/tek9qi/why_do_so_many_cultures_say_good_morning_and_good/

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by Novice (660 points)

The earliest example of using "good morning" was in the early 1800s according to Oxford English Dictionary. The origin of this claim came from a TikTok video posted by user @outkast.naii, and in the original video the user has edited the caption to say "My apologies, IT WASN'T the ORIGIN. made a mistake saying that part."

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