Vashti

Kindles are great devices and they’re subsidised, so they’re cheap. It’s perfectly possible to use them on e.g. permanent airplane mode. You don’t even have to buy books from Amazon, if you use Calibre.

That said I’ll be going Kobo next time because I love buttons.

The thing is you aren’t the audience. Discussion about anti-Asian racism in English tends to be focused on the experiences of e.g. Asian-American people and on the racist abuse they get from white people.

It’s actually that exact kind of self-moderation, surely? “hang on, doesn’t this word suck, let’s not use it”?

This reminds me of the not-very-edifying-at-all moment when “joey” became a universal term of abuse in UK playgrounds.