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I have never heard either spook or glowie used with any racial intent, literally ever. I know that's totally anecdotal so can anyone help me with examples of where it gets used that way?
I will need to be able to explain it to libs at some point and if I can't understand it myself I can't explain it to libs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Tumin#Inspiration_for_The_Human_Stain
So is it actually used?
Like I'm dead serious when I say does anyone have examples of actual usage? I have never seen anyone use it, not in fictional media/drama, not online, not anywhere.
I mean this in entirely good faith. I am trying to properly understand and build the basis of how I would have this conversation with someone who is as oblivious to this as me. My assumption here is that this must be a regionally specific american thing or something hence my complete and total obliviousness to it.
I think the bigger issue I will have with this is that it's going to be almost impossible for me to convince anyone in the UK to stop using it. It's definitely not used as a slur here and there was a very popular UK drama show called "Spooks".
Once a cousin of mine used it meaning a CIA agent, and another cousin said "you mean a black person?"
That's my only experience with it off the top off my head (but I'm white)