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[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 65 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This meme even looks like a Pole lmao

edit: I have been informed he actually looks like a normal Polish guy

[-] CatoPosting@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

Polack

This is a slur, isn't it?

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

im quite certain it's a famous splatter painter actually theory-gary

[-] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

an old timey 1800s one for a group that's considered white now. It's a slur in the way guido, wop or dago are. This house was built on ironic racism against Irish, Italians and Poles!

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

I think it's worth being careful with this. Anti Polish racism is alive and well here in the UK.

[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Yeah, in America it's more of a joke. But learning more about Britain as I grew up, it's crazy how the Polish hate is still just as strong as it was when my grandma lived there.

[-] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, I'll admit this was an Americanism of mine and I acted like a burger here. In America, poles are not really discriminated against and are basically Irish-American Whites indistinguishable from other whites beyond incomprehensible surname spelling. I hadn't considered that it was much worse in Europe

[-] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

I did the same thing. bawllin-sad

[-] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

True. Maybe I'll avoid in the future. Everyone reading know I'm using it lovingly for Poland actually being based for once

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

Here in the UK we got a considerable amount of migrants from Poland, and the amount of racism against them was incredibly high. I never met a bad Polish migrant too, they are all lovely.

[-] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

I never met a bad Polish migrant too

I've known a couple that were completely insufferable but that was just their personality not a consequence of being Polish. Also they shouldn't be expected to be perfect people they're just people same as you and me.

[-] Teapot@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Yes, please use the Hexbear approved "cracker" next time

[-] oregoncom@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A slur's a slur. I've definitely seen Polish people get discriminated before. The article's literally about a living Nazi who was ethnically cleansing them. "Ironic" Racism is some far right BS. I'm not white btw. White people "ironically" being racist towards eachother is the cringiest shit to witness.

[-] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

This ain't it chief anti-Polish racism is alive and well. Much like anti-Irish racism I was talking to a Scot recently who suggested to me that we put them in concentration camps

[-] CatoPosting@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

ironic racism

Is just good old fashioned racism I think. I'm glad you didn't mean it as a slur, but I've certainly never heard anyone use that word positively. Usually as a joke about how stupid people from Poland are. I knew it meant an impossibly stupid person before I knew even what Poland was.

[-] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Alright I'll do 30 lashes and never again drop the p-slur

[-] UnicodeHamSic@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Not in America. Apparently it is in other places.

[-] CatoPosting@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago
[-] UnicodeHamSic@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

While you are factually correct you have the misfortune of living in a world where people are unaware of that.

[-] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Probably, but I'll allow it if you're making fun of my dad.

Hunka is from Ternopil region he most probably do have shitton of Poles in his ancestry, that region was along the city of Lwów mostly Polish in the past. Also western and eastern Slavs are basically identical in looks, you cannot recognize Czech from Pole from Ukrainian from Russian etc on a basis of look alone.

[-] ProxyTheAwesome@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

i was joking that the 'worst guy you know' meme looks like a polish person

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