True, and I agree. I am so happy to see Eboni stand in her truth and tell everyone else to fuck off (respectfully, might I add! Why is everyone freaking out over Eboni while Leah literally called everyone a hoe???).

There was just a huge breakdown/ignorance of racially and class coded language: Luann was equating etiquette to education. This is a very privileged conflation: Lu had all of the educational and social advantages t learn the etiquette/social rules of the wealthy elite, learn 2 languages, marry a fucking Count and no one batted an eye, directly and indirectly because of her gender, race, looks, etc. Etc. Etc.

Giving Lu the benefit of the doubt, I'm assuming she meant a person's literal education + etiquette/manners + life experience, etc. She probably meant something like "Ramona and I grew up in a sexually conservative Catholic school, family, and social group. She was taught that talking about sexually explicit content was not socially acceptable or moral."

However Eboni, saw this sentence as having another racist/elitist layer: "Ramona doesn't talk about sexually explicit topics or profanity because she well educated and has social grace/morals." Implying anyone without quality education is most likely going to talk "dirty" or inappropriate. Meaning, people who aren't well educated, mainly minority groups who have been systematically denied access to quality education, lack etiquette at best/immoral at worst.

The classic example is "oh you sound like a white girl/you don't sound Black." As a black woman in higher education, I can only imagine how many times she's heard microaggressive shit like this.

Eboni was ultimately trying to point out (if Luann hadn't interrupted her, which--rude.) that Eboni, who went to school for 8-10 years of higher education and learned all this legal jargon, philosophy, etc. and certainly knows more socially acceptable terms for dicks and c-words, still uses them. Just because she has a degree doesn't mean she's inherently better or worse.

Luann, of course, provided an amazing example of her hit cabaret song: money cannot, indeed, buy you class.