I tried to think of a way to make this sound ironic, but I couldn’t
I was thinking about the Taiwanese kid who got busted for stocking up on illegal firearms, when the Forumosa server went down because so many people were posting about the Taiwanese kid busted for illegal firearms
Here’s a good example of irony from a link in a different thread
“I think the irony is lost on her if she‘s calling a gentleman a coon in the same breath as accusing an Asian tea shop of racism,” read another comment.
I’m still trying to figure out whether the example you provided is hypocrisy or irony. Would it be irony because the woman is black, thus making her racism unexpected?
Hypocrisy and irony are not exclusive of each other. This situation could be both.
The irony is that she is complaining of something allegedly racist (the supposed appropriation of black culture) while at the same time using a black racial epithet against a person of color. Her use of the slur is ironic because it is not expected of someone in the midst of complaining about racial cultural appropriation.
She is being a hypocrite be complaining about an alleged inappropriate racial act (the appropriation) and then herself using an inappropriate racial act (calling someone a racial slur, specifically a slur related to the culture she is discussing)
I still don’t think it reached the level of irony. If she were employed by the Equal Opportunities Commission, or similar, then I’d get the irony. At this point it’s just her accusing people of racism while using a racist slur.
No. It would still be irony if the woman was a Filipino mestizo. And I can easily recall Filipinas I knew in college who could be as hypocritical and ironic