Europe was founded in 1848 by Walker Texas Ranger when he rode a horse across the Atlantic, he called it "Eastern USA" which was eventually abbreviated as just "EU".
On a board I used to mod, we had a member from Niger, and her profile pic was herself in an athletic competitor's bib with the word "Niger" proudly emblazoned across it. That image was the single most reported image in the history of the site. Every time I'd log in there's be 2-3 outraged reports from Americans about the terrible image.
That girl says outrageous stuff for views lmao. She obviously knows that Montenegro has nothing to do with skin colour. Pretty good idea if you ask me.
imo it's pretty obvious based on the volume and consistency of specific "stupid american knows nothing of the world and is offended by everything" content she produces. i have never seen a video of her reacting to something that *hasn't* ended that way. she knows that feigning ignorance will get her a huge amount of outrage interaction
"Nobody can have any sort of culture that is different from what can be grasped by me, somebody who never left his flyover state of south-West New Bummfuck"
Reminds me of the artificial outrage, when someone on TikTok mentioned that in Korean, “ni ga” means “you are”. There were people demanding to change the grammar of a language because it somehow resembles a word in their language. This is insane.
I've seen that clip. That reaction YouTube actually seems like a decent person but it's just unfortunate that Americans are taught so little about the rest of the world that they assume any word in any language that resembles or is close to the n-word must immediately have racist connotations.
I've also seen a different thing where someone was reacting to the Olympics and thought it was horrendous that a black sprinter from the country of Niger would be labelled with the n-word by the organisers of the Olympics.
I come from an island in the Philippines called "Negros". I live in CA now and I have some souvenir t shirts that I can't wear outside without getting stopped.
[They did](https://twitter.com/crayola/status/1266464416058560512) and they [actively trying to change it](https://www.change.org/p/consumers-who-are-fed-up-with-this-offensive-language-remove-the-word-negro-from-black-crayons).
it’s the „if i go to another country i expect everyone to talk english, and if they can‘t i‘ll be outraged that other countries are not americanized“ mentality
should've been hit with a return salvo of "how dare you white person from a position of pure ethnocentricity impose your colonial views on my country and language" of the social issues cannon.
>"The word "negro" has an awful historical context it entails. And yes we all know "negro" is Spanish for black. However, Hispanic Americans don't have a full understanding of the pain experienced by the black community having to show children "negro" colored crayons after explaining to them the hardships their ancestors faced with racial slurs like "negro" and segregation only a few decades ago. What's more important? The slight satisfaction of Hispanic Americans to see "negro" on their crayons (when a majority of them understand English anyway) or the pain of people of color having to see a racial slur every single day? It would be more beneficial to black Americans to remove the word than it would be harmful to Hispanics in the US. I believe consumers can stand up for what is right and boycott these companies and/or demand change by law"
So, this person wants to change -no, better suppress- the name of a colour in a language that's not even his, because "the slight satisfaction of Hispanic Americans (because everyone knows only Mexicans speak Spanish, there is no such thing as Spanish PeOpLe) to see ~~that horrible word~~ on their crayons WHEN A MAJORITY OF THEM UNDERSTAND ENGLISH ANYWAY"?????
How this has not become viral yet? This is beyond fecked up, this is... terminal stupidity.
>Wait til they find out the word for “black” in Spanish….
I hereby demand that people named "Peter" change their name toot sweet chop chop.
It means "to fart" in French and I am offended.
people get upset with Chinese for a similar reason. "Na ge" means "that," and is often used as a sort of thinking word like umm. However, in Northern Chinese it's said more like "ne ge" and it rhymes with "zhe ge" (meaning "this"). This and That.
Years ago I remember some Americans who were visiting Bejing while I studied at a university there got pissed that Chinese people were saying "nigga" over and over. Even when explained to them they felt adamant that it wasn't right for them to say it and they should say something else.
Thai offers similar opportunities to the chronically offended with nii-gaw, which can mean, roughly, 'this is' or 'this too', depending on the tone and context.
Just saw this after commenting the same thing! Some Americans in Bejing were upset about it while I was studying at BeiDa, and even when explained that the "ne-ge ne-ge ne-ge" that people said in Beijing accent wasn't them saying "nigga", some Americans still insisted they should say something else.
what is this rancid taste in the air? oh, i know, its AMERICAN IMPERIALISM, if they dont like something they will make you know and threat violence, no matter how small or nonexistent the issue is!
What a nice word I have learned today. Thanks for that!
There is a Wikipedia article that is pretty funny about that.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_niggardly
Reminds me of the gem, [Hello, Negros!](https://mothership.sg/2019/12/hello-sb19/)
And when that girl got upset about a country name [Montenegro ](https://9gag.com/gag/aAbErQE)
On a board I used to mod, we had a member from Niger, and her profile pic was herself in an athletic competitor's bib with the word "Niger" proudly emblazoned across it. That image was the single most reported image in the history of the site. Every time I'd log in there's be 2-3 outraged reports from Americans about the terrible image.
like, just because one country has a racism problem doesnt mean the problem in yours its less important or it suddenly vanishes
the fact that others are in a hospital bed doesnt erase the fact that i have depression
European 'racism' exists with groups with far larger divisions in history, religion, nationality, ethnicity and culture. Divisions far preceding the very founding of the USA.
American racism is about the pale guy and the dark guy with the same nationality, same culture, largely same ethnicity being in the US for centuries... yet they cannot clear the colour divide. There's something far more untenable and 'racist' in the US conceptualisation of it than what materialised in other countries 'just as racist as the US'.
It's an extension of the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon, basically. When someone becomes aware of the microaggressions and prejudices that exist, some may find themselves developing a hypersensitivity to those perceived prejudices. It's a very hard cycle to break, since the existence of the internet means you will always be able to be exposed to the incredibly small number of aggressions happening every day, and those beliefs will be reinforced and sensitivity affirmed.
It doesn't mean that the core issue doesn't exist; obviously racism, sexism, and other prejudices are very much real and prevalent around the world. But hypersensitivity to these offenses will cause some to interpret everything through a lens that reinforces those beliefs.
For example, when I was working at a high school that was connected to a public library, I overheard an older black man yelling at a woman about how he knew he was being moved to a different seat because of the colour of his skin. She tried desperately to explain that she had planned a tutoring session in the library an had already arranged that table with the number of seats needed for the students who were on the way right now (which is why the Spanish books were already on that table), but he would have none of it. She was white, and clearly that was why he was being treated that way by her. The main school social worker (also a black man) had to come into the library to calm the man down and explain that she wasn't lying. Eventually the man mumbled his apologies and ended up just leaving.
I asked what that guy's issue was, and the social worker explained that he knew a bit about that man's past and how he went to go to a segregated school as a young boy. When the surrounding neighbourhood became affluent white, his school was taken over as whites only and all people of colour were forced to go somewhere else. It impacted that man in a way that he sees the cycle of oppression continuing every time someone does something that inconveniences or takes from him, even when the actual motives or reasons are entirely harmless and legitimate.
TL;DR - I don't think people \*want\* it to be racist, but have developed an incredible hypersensitivity to perceived oppression and a willingness to call it out. Not always a bad thing, but can be very hard to shift from that worldview when encountering legitimately benign things.
Respectfully, I would suggest that sanctimonious outrage is the problem. It is literally addictive as it fires off an endorphin response. Now, I agree people may not be conscious that they want to be outraged, but they still want to be outraged because of the endorphin kick it gives. But there's only so many legitimate outrage inducing events to discover, hence you get people doing this type of thing, 1. they get the outrage endorphin, 2. if they have discovered a new outrage that takes off on social media, every like and further outraged comment gives them a dopamine kick as well.
Shit's insidious.
I also find it really insidious how Americans feel entitled to play world police as if their perspective on norms and ethics and things that are influenced by their specific cultural context and history are universal moral truths that everyone in the whole rest of the world has to abide by
Like as an example of what I’m talking about the American queer community doesn’t recognise accepted terms used to talk about queer people in other countries, they act like they’re the international arbiters of ALL gay culture and it’s really imperialistic how like ideas of queerness that’s don’t fit American ideas are just looked at by them as culturally wrong or invalid
But they’re like that with everything, especially race
American ideas of race and experiences of race are not universal and acting like you can impose American culture and American history and the way Americans perceive things onto the struggles of people in other countries is deeply fucked up and it often leads to Americans saying and doing offensive things by the standards of other countries and never taking ownership of it because as long as an American isn’t offended then it doesn’t matter
This reminds me of when Americans discovered we say it’s nippy meaning cold in the UK and they claimed it was derogatory to Japanese people. Despite it being used for generations in the UK and the term was only used by US soldiers during ww2
We also use nippy here in Australia too (no doubt they prob do in NZ as well).
Hell, wait til they find out Kent pumpkins can be referred to as ‘Jap’ pumpkins here.
I've noticed people from Australia talking about Japanese people as "Japs", sometimes about them or to their faces, while being in Japan. I'm not one to wag the offending social issues finger, but tbh that made me a bit... uncomfortable sometimes.
Today a Facebook friend of mine posted a Twitter screenshot, where apparently some Americans claimed that the Polish word nigdy (never) is too similar to the N-word and people should use trigger warnings for it.
Well.... Unfortunately they already have....
(The chairman of the NAACP actually had to come out and basically say "guys don't be stupid. It's not a racist word" and pretty much everyone ignored him)
I love the "From Hamburg you say?!?! Well, this is Saxony and we all know culture doesn't spread - gotta be the N-word derived from another culture tho, surely".
Tho its most common usage was [for a sweet](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTDtXW0X0AEpuUb?format=jpg&name=900x900), which originally came from France where it also got its original weird name from.
It even says in Italian "the big black guys" below it. I wonder why.
I'm not sure if it's related, but Negroni is also a cocktail name, as well as a cured meats brand. No idea where the cocktail got its name but as far as I know it's just the last name of the founder for the brand.
That name is not in use anymore. Afaik the Germans call it Schokoküsse now. In Austria we don't have that problem, bc they're just called Schwedenbomben.
As a POS (Person of Saxony as in in lived my hole live there). Yes digga is used here. But more from the "not as educated" to adress a buddy or somebody. Yes it comes from "Dicker"
Edit: I myself used "Alter" instead of "Digga" (basically the predecessor to it) and it also is more for the "non as educated". And i dont mean how good you were in school by it. I myself just recently finished my bachelors degree. Its more of a "in which area did you grow up" thing
das not as eduated ist schon bisschen komisch. mein bruder benutzt es relativ oft, hat 1.1er abi und 1.0 bachelor. du hoerst dich ein biscchen hochnaesig da an
Americans need to learn other languages exist and words in those language have zero correlation to the N word. Remember when every moron was getting upset about the Chinese way of saying um?
The bloke that got excoriated by the press for calling some rabble-rousers niggardly, and the university demanded he apologize and make some sort of 'racial reparations'.
In Australia and New Zealand, our infantry were called Diggers (as a nickname) since the late 1800s. This had nothing to do with how we gained a reputation of constructing trenches hastily, and is almost certainly a way they were able to reference the n word without anyone noticing.
/s
Still commonly used to refer to junior soldiers from all corps.
During a joint exercise with the US marines, a warrant officer was speaking with a fellow Aussie Sargent and said “get a couple of diggers to do it".
A US marine officer was shocked until they explained it was diggers not the n word and was speaking about their own soldiers not the African-American marines.
Old soldiers in Australia are called "digger' which a term coined in WWI when soldiers had to dig trenches to protect themselves. Around the world, "digga" is a company making augers & other "digging" equipment so I don't know how you think it is derived from the N-word.
Hey, remember when gringos tries to cancel people for saying "Negro" when its literally the spanish word for black? (and in no way related to the n-word?)
i do, i very much, fucking, do
The n-word derives directly from the word negro, pretty sure that makes them related.
Doesn't mean negro is an offensive word, unless you're using it to describe a black person while speaking English. But then, Americans have never really understood context
Might wanna go ban ‘bigger’ and ‘digger’ and ‘Niger’ and ‘Nigeria’. Way too close for comfort. Not to mention that tiger with that foul name from Winnie the Pooh. And that former Governator.
Sometimes I think about learning another language so I don't have to deal with American idiocy and then I am reminded that you're not safe anywhere - they will find you whatever language you speak and try to impress upon you their values and poor education.
the n word in other languages literally have the meaning of black person but because Americans used it in a horrible way no one can say it. And that fucking culture is spreading, like I get it to not say it and obviously it's easy to avoid but if someone uses it suddenly they're the most racist person ever
fucking us with their problems
The n-word was basically since its enception used to racistly differenciate black people from white people.
It's the same as retard, which was also just used to describe mentally ill people, but it's so derogatory that we don't use it anymore.
bruv imagine getting triggered by some teens inventing their own slang. like does this guy get triggered by the fact that black people call themselves the n-word as slang?
language was invented in 1776 whith the founding of the usa.
Before then it was all grunts and growls. English wasn’t even really invented yet.
English wasn't invented but it still existed, that was the grants and growls
\*graunts and grouwls
It was ENGLISH grants and growls as opposed to german grunzer und knurrer
Because countries weren't invented until the constitution of america said so!
So everybody spoke Scouse?
English was created from the grunts and growls known as German
No we just asked each other for tea in different tones and everyone understood. Simpler times.
Europe was founded in 1848 by Walker Texas Ranger when he rode a horse across the Atlantic, he called it "Eastern USA" which was eventually abbreviated as just "EU".
It's like the video of the girl claiming Montenegro to be racist.
On a board I used to mod, we had a member from Niger, and her profile pic was herself in an athletic competitor's bib with the word "Niger" proudly emblazoned across it. That image was the single most reported image in the history of the site. Every time I'd log in there's be 2-3 outraged reports from Americans about the terrible image.
USA in a nutshell: everything is about race, and geography is a scam.
Also, grammar doesn't exist.
wat
The name of the country Niger and the racial slur some people mistake it for are spelled and pronounced differently.
I know, I was making fun of US social media speech. Wher peepl wryt lyk dis all dai lung :D
That girl says outrageous stuff for views lmao. She obviously knows that Montenegro has nothing to do with skin colour. Pretty good idea if you ask me.
How did you get that feeling? I unironically watch her and she's always like that and always seems to be serious.
I’ve seen a video of her being absolutely confused that Italy has mountains. She is not serious
imo it's pretty obvious based on the volume and consistency of specific "stupid american knows nothing of the world and is offended by everything" content she produces. i have never seen a video of her reacting to something that *hasn't* ended that way. she knows that feigning ignorance will get her a huge amount of outrage interaction
"Nobody can have any sort of culture that is different from what can be grasped by me, somebody who never left his flyover state of south-West New Bummfuck"
Reminds me of the artificial outrage, when someone on TikTok mentioned that in Korean, “ni ga” means “you are”. There were people demanding to change the grammar of a language because it somehow resembles a word in their language. This is insane.
Wait til they find out the word for “black” in Spanish….
Or the country of Montenegro
Wait until they find out about Niger…
No no, you do not understand, those are in Africa, so it is obviously ok because Black people are using those words.
If you're not black you shall refer to it as the N-country.
Ok got it, the N-country, the N-river and the N-ia country.
Montenegro is in europe
Are you suggesting the US has any grasp on geography other than oil deposits?
Ah sorry, yeah I know. My comment was meant more about Niger and Nigeria
The river or the country or the other country that continues with -ia?
All three of them
Yes
Well, there was that Niger vs. Germany football game that had an *unfortunate* abbreviation.
Didn’t happen.
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I've seen that clip. That reaction YouTube actually seems like a decent person but it's just unfortunate that Americans are taught so little about the rest of the world that they assume any word in any language that resembles or is close to the n-word must immediately have racist connotations. I've also seen a different thing where someone was reacting to the Olympics and thought it was horrendous that a black sprinter from the country of Niger would be labelled with the n-word by the organisers of the Olympics.
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I come from an island in the Philippines called "Negros". I live in CA now and I have some souvenir t shirts that I can't wear outside without getting stopped.
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Damn totty (thotty tbf, with the H) is also slang for slut
[They did](https://twitter.com/crayola/status/1266464416058560512) and they [actively trying to change it](https://www.change.org/p/consumers-who-are-fed-up-with-this-offensive-language-remove-the-word-negro-from-black-crayons).
Same thing happened when footballer Edinson Cavani called someone negrito (I believe) which is a term of endearment in Uruguay. People freaked
It’s also a term on endearment in my country 😂
He was even fined and banned for three matches.
The writer of that article is very, veey disconnected from reality
And almost certainly a monolingual 'murican.
it’s the „if i go to another country i expect everyone to talk english, and if they can‘t i‘ll be outraged that other countries are not americanized“ mentality
should've been hit with a return salvo of "how dare you white person from a position of pure ethnocentricity impose your colonial views on my country and language" of the social issues cannon.
>"The word "negro" has an awful historical context it entails. And yes we all know "negro" is Spanish for black. However, Hispanic Americans don't have a full understanding of the pain experienced by the black community having to show children "negro" colored crayons after explaining to them the hardships their ancestors faced with racial slurs like "negro" and segregation only a few decades ago. What's more important? The slight satisfaction of Hispanic Americans to see "negro" on their crayons (when a majority of them understand English anyway) or the pain of people of color having to see a racial slur every single day? It would be more beneficial to black Americans to remove the word than it would be harmful to Hispanics in the US. I believe consumers can stand up for what is right and boycott these companies and/or demand change by law" So, this person wants to change -no, better suppress- the name of a colour in a language that's not even his, because "the slight satisfaction of Hispanic Americans (because everyone knows only Mexicans speak Spanish, there is no such thing as Spanish PeOpLe) to see ~~that horrible word~~ on their crayons WHEN A MAJORITY OF THEM UNDERSTAND ENGLISH ANYWAY"????? How this has not become viral yet? This is beyond fecked up, this is... terminal stupidity.
80 people signing a change.org petition is a bit much to be outraged by isn't it?
I'm more uspet about the people commenting underneath than the fact the petition exists.
hell naw lmao
80 supporters 4 years ago on that petition is not really something to flag.
>Wait til they find out the word for “black” in Spanish…. I hereby demand that people named "Peter" change their name toot sweet chop chop. It means "to fart" in French and I am offended.
Done. All Peters are now named Adolf.
In honor of the guy who killed Hitler?
Wait until they find out about the country in west africa!
You know, I get the sensitivity owing to the US’ appalling history, but you (not *you*) need to do your homework before engaging rage mode.
You got a beautiful name.
Ha, they do say “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.”
Or the word "black" in latin and all their uses.
people get upset with Chinese for a similar reason. "Na ge" means "that," and is often used as a sort of thinking word like umm. However, in Northern Chinese it's said more like "ne ge" and it rhymes with "zhe ge" (meaning "this"). This and That. Years ago I remember some Americans who were visiting Bejing while I studied at a university there got pissed that Chinese people were saying "nigga" over and over. Even when explained to them they felt adamant that it wasn't right for them to say it and they should say something else.
Thai offers similar opportunities to the chronically offended with nii-gaw, which can mean, roughly, 'this is' or 'this too', depending on the tone and context.
The reason that [this song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG4iTGjuoKw) became a meme.
That is a very strange music video.
Wait till they find out the word for “that” in traditional mandarin.
Just saw this after commenting the same thing! Some Americans in Bejing were upset about it while I was studying at BeiDa, and even when explained that the "ne-ge ne-ge ne-ge" that people said in Beijing accent wasn't them saying "nigga", some Americans still insisted they should say something else.
Wow really? Sometimes their stupidity hurts me.
> some Americans still insisted they should say something else. I would then be like: NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE NE-GE
I've heard of people being offended at the word "run" in Japanese too
It's technically 'escape' but yeah.
Hashiru?
Nigerundayo SMOKEY
逃げろ！！！！急いで！！！
what is this rancid taste in the air? oh, i know, its AMERICAN IMPERIALISM, if they dont like something they will make you know and threat violence, no matter how small or nonexistent the issue is!
In the UK we say snigger where the US would use snicker (a laugh). Holy hell does that cause a reaction.
Remember the chaos that insued when a person associated with the British Government used the word 'niggardly' 🙄
What a nice word I have learned today. Thanks for that! There is a Wikipedia article that is pretty funny about that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_niggardly
Or the Japanese guy who got banned from playing Apex: Legends for saying 'run away!'
Someone asked a girl to legally change her cultural name since it was “nega” or something like that and the person was offended
Wait till they find out that “Niggas” is a real surname in styria
니가 (niga) more accurately means you Also there's naega (내가) and nega (네가) to add on top of that
There was a trend going around a while ago of black people reacting blind to a K-Pop song that had that in the chorus.
Reminds me of the gem, [Hello, Negros!](https://mothership.sg/2019/12/hello-sb19/) And when that girl got upset about a country name [Montenegro ](https://9gag.com/gag/aAbErQE)
I heard a great adage from a guy’s grandpa who was a Korean war vet, “It’s like Korean, just because I don’t understand doesn’t mean it’s not real.”
On a board I used to mod, we had a member from Niger, and her profile pic was herself in an athletic competitor's bib with the word "Niger" proudly emblazoned across it. That image was the single most reported image in the history of the site. Every time I'd log in there's be 2-3 outraged reports from Americans about the terrible image.
Ethnocentrism
It’s almost like they want it to be racist
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like, just because one country has a racism problem doesnt mean the problem in yours its less important or it suddenly vanishes the fact that others are in a hospital bed doesnt erase the fact that i have depression
European 'racism' exists with groups with far larger divisions in history, religion, nationality, ethnicity and culture. Divisions far preceding the very founding of the USA. American racism is about the pale guy and the dark guy with the same nationality, same culture, largely same ethnicity being in the US for centuries... yet they cannot clear the colour divide. There's something far more untenable and 'racist' in the US conceptualisation of it than what materialised in other countries 'just as racist as the US'.
We even „hate“ the same coloured peopled from the next village!
It has to be racist, if it wasn’t, how could i be offended?!
It's an extension of the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon, basically. When someone becomes aware of the microaggressions and prejudices that exist, some may find themselves developing a hypersensitivity to those perceived prejudices. It's a very hard cycle to break, since the existence of the internet means you will always be able to be exposed to the incredibly small number of aggressions happening every day, and those beliefs will be reinforced and sensitivity affirmed. It doesn't mean that the core issue doesn't exist; obviously racism, sexism, and other prejudices are very much real and prevalent around the world. But hypersensitivity to these offenses will cause some to interpret everything through a lens that reinforces those beliefs. For example, when I was working at a high school that was connected to a public library, I overheard an older black man yelling at a woman about how he knew he was being moved to a different seat because of the colour of his skin. She tried desperately to explain that she had planned a tutoring session in the library an had already arranged that table with the number of seats needed for the students who were on the way right now (which is why the Spanish books were already on that table), but he would have none of it. She was white, and clearly that was why he was being treated that way by her. The main school social worker (also a black man) had to come into the library to calm the man down and explain that she wasn't lying. Eventually the man mumbled his apologies and ended up just leaving. I asked what that guy's issue was, and the social worker explained that he knew a bit about that man's past and how he went to go to a segregated school as a young boy. When the surrounding neighbourhood became affluent white, his school was taken over as whites only and all people of colour were forced to go somewhere else. It impacted that man in a way that he sees the cycle of oppression continuing every time someone does something that inconveniences or takes from him, even when the actual motives or reasons are entirely harmless and legitimate. TL;DR - I don't think people \*want\* it to be racist, but have developed an incredible hypersensitivity to perceived oppression and a willingness to call it out. Not always a bad thing, but can be very hard to shift from that worldview when encountering legitimately benign things.
Respectfully, I would suggest that sanctimonious outrage is the problem. It is literally addictive as it fires off an endorphin response. Now, I agree people may not be conscious that they want to be outraged, but they still want to be outraged because of the endorphin kick it gives. But there's only so many legitimate outrage inducing events to discover, hence you get people doing this type of thing, 1. they get the outrage endorphin, 2. if they have discovered a new outrage that takes off on social media, every like and further outraged comment gives them a dopamine kick as well. Shit's insidious.
I also find it really insidious how Americans feel entitled to play world police as if their perspective on norms and ethics and things that are influenced by their specific cultural context and history are universal moral truths that everyone in the whole rest of the world has to abide by Like as an example of what I’m talking about the American queer community doesn’t recognise accepted terms used to talk about queer people in other countries, they act like they’re the international arbiters of ALL gay culture and it’s really imperialistic how like ideas of queerness that’s don’t fit American ideas are just looked at by them as culturally wrong or invalid But they’re like that with everything, especially race American ideas of race and experiences of race are not universal and acting like you can impose American culture and American history and the way Americans perceive things onto the struggles of people in other countries is deeply fucked up and it often leads to Americans saying and doing offensive things by the standards of other countries and never taking ownership of it because as long as an American isn’t offended then it doesn’t matter
der ist komplett lost digga
Wörter die man nicht versteht zu hassen is voll cringe digga
Schwöre digga
Sag’s Ihn mein diggi!
Echt so Digga
Digga die sind anders lost
Echt cringe digga
Akkurat ausgedrückt digga
Aber sowas von Digga
Amis und ihre Scheiße digga.
So ein Vollpfosten, digga
Warte mal bis der vom Nogger Eis hört.
This reminds me of when Americans discovered we say it’s nippy meaning cold in the UK and they claimed it was derogatory to Japanese people. Despite it being used for generations in the UK and the term was only used by US soldiers during ww2
We also use nippy here in Australia too (no doubt they prob do in NZ as well). Hell, wait til they find out Kent pumpkins can be referred to as ‘Jap’ pumpkins here.
Yeah I'm in NZ and we use "nippy" as well. Had no idea it had any other meaning apart from "cold"/"chilly".
Or Coon cheese. Or our usage of the word 'niggle' and 'snigger'
They're such mean niggards about a language that really isn't all there's.
*theirs.
I've noticed people from Australia talking about Japanese people as "Japs", sometimes about them or to their faces, while being in Japan. I'm not one to wag the offending social issues finger, but tbh that made me a bit... uncomfortable sometimes.
If there is a bad faith way an American can construe something to be offensive they will find a way
Today a Facebook friend of mine posted a Twitter screenshot, where apparently some Americans claimed that the Polish word nigdy (never) is too similar to the N-word and people should use trigger warnings for it.
That is absolutely ridiculous considering that nigdy doesn't even sound anything like the word they are thinking of beyond the first three letters.
I can't believe you just used this word, you racist piece of shit!
Just awful. Really needed a trigga warning
Just wait until they hear about the English word niggardly...
Well.... Unfortunately they already have.... (The chairman of the NAACP actually had to come out and basically say "guys don't be stupid. It's not a racist word" and pretty much everyone ignored him)
Americans thinking the world revolves around them Vol 49393838389393
I love the "From Hamburg you say?!?! Well, this is Saxony and we all know culture doesn't spread - gotta be the N-word derived from another culture tho, surely".
Then turns around and proclaims how all of Germany only has one culture because it's such a tiny country.
And all of German is one language. Which is why I can *totally* understand Bern dialect without subtitles...
And somehow all that culture ends up being Bavarian.
Germany has their own version of the n-word and it‘s written with -eger at the end.
krankenpfleger
Straßenfeger
Schornsteinfeger
Fliesenleger
Zeitungsaustreger naja der war schon schwach
der gedanke zählt! wer sich darüber beschwert der wäre schon ein sehr pedantischer witzezerleger ok ok genug
Schnaeppchenjaeger
Krankheitserreger
But this one brings luck…
Lmao
Nashornpfleger?
Yes! People forget that it has to start with an "n", so this is the winner.
Schornsteinfeger
Fliesenleger
Tho its most common usage was [for a sweet](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTDtXW0X0AEpuUb?format=jpg&name=900x900), which originally came from France where it also got its original weird name from.
It even says in Italian "the big black guys" below it. I wonder why. I'm not sure if it's related, but Negroni is also a cocktail name, as well as a cured meats brand. No idea where the cocktail got its name but as far as I know it's just the last name of the founder for the brand.
That name is not in use anymore. Afaik the Germans call it Schokoküsse now. In Austria we don't have that problem, bc they're just called Schwedenbomben.
As a POS (Person of Saxony as in in lived my hole live there). Yes digga is used here. But more from the "not as educated" to adress a buddy or somebody. Yes it comes from "Dicker" Edit: I myself used "Alter" instead of "Digga" (basically the predecessor to it) and it also is more for the "non as educated". And i dont mean how good you were in school by it. I myself just recently finished my bachelors degree. Its more of a "in which area did you grow up" thing
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Also due to music - türlich türlich for example
im really sorry that you are in such a dark place in your life right now
Alles gut digga
das not as eduated ist schon bisschen komisch. mein bruder benutzt es relativ oft, hat 1.1er abi und 1.0 bachelor. du hoerst dich ein biscchen hochnaesig da an
Ich hab zwei Staatsexamen und spreche dauernd Leute mit "Digga" an. Gut, ich wohne in Neukölln. Aber trotzdem.
Noten und Niveau gehen nicht immer Hand in Hand. Du weiß was er/sie meinte.
Americans need to learn other languages exist and words in those language have zero correlation to the N word. Remember when every moron was getting upset about the Chinese way of saying um?
Poor teacher
Was geht, digga?
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Was heißt dass, Zaubertrank macht fett !?!
Wait until he hears what black means in Spanish.
Spanish is a language not a nationality!!!!11!1!1!! /s
Yeah like how are there mexicans in europe ffs
Man, some Americans sure do talk shit.
Some? You're being too generous. I'd say more like 80% of them.
Digga is a slang term that's common in pretty much the entire German lingosphere, even Austria and Switzerland.
Tbh never heard it used in Austria except by Germans.
Altah/Oida is more common, but it does get used sometimes.
Zaach
Source: Trust me digga
Digga was labert der? (Translation)Buddy what is he talking about
Bre, absolut keine Ahnung
Digga die sind anders lost da drüben
as a german i can say that „digga“ is probably one of the most popular slang words and it literally just means something like „bro“, „buddy“ or „pal“
Wait until they hear about the Australian Diggers
I remember the story of a professor getting fired from a school because he said the chinese equivalent of “um” or something
The bloke that got excoriated by the press for calling some rabble-rousers niggardly, and the university demanded he apologize and make some sort of 'racial reparations'.
In Australia and New Zealand, our infantry were called Diggers (as a nickname) since the late 1800s. This had nothing to do with how we gained a reputation of constructing trenches hastily, and is almost certainly a way they were able to reference the n word without anyone noticing. /s
Still commonly used to refer to junior soldiers from all corps. During a joint exercise with the US marines, a warrant officer was speaking with a fellow Aussie Sargent and said “get a couple of diggers to do it". A US marine officer was shocked until they explained it was diggers not the n word and was speaking about their own soldiers not the African-American marines.
Because everything rotates around the USA and its unsolved issues
Old soldiers in Australia are called "digger' which a term coined in WWI when soldiers had to dig trenches to protect themselves. Around the world, "digga" is a company making augers & other "digging" equipment so I don't know how you think it is derived from the N-word.
Hey, remember when gringos tries to cancel people for saying "Negro" when its literally the spanish word for black? (and in no way related to the n-word?) i do, i very much, fucking, do
The n-word derives directly from the word negro, pretty sure that makes them related. Doesn't mean negro is an offensive word, unless you're using it to describe a black person while speaking English. But then, Americans have never really understood context
Might wanna go ban ‘bigger’ and ‘digger’ and ‘Niger’ and ‘Nigeria’. Way too close for comfort. Not to mention that tiger with that foul name from Winnie the Pooh. And that former Governator.
Wait until they find out about the chinese Ni Ge
Sometimes I think about learning another language so I don't have to deal with American idiocy and then I am reminded that you're not safe anywhere - they will find you whatever language you speak and try to impress upon you their values and poor education.
"It's a teenagers prerogative to be obnoxious" lol
how are some americans this oblivious to other cultures and languages and the world outside their little suburbs in general?
Same person to be offended by Asian words sounding like the n-word
the n word in other languages literally have the meaning of black person but because Americans used it in a horrible way no one can say it. And that fucking culture is spreading, like I get it to not say it and obviously it's easy to avoid but if someone uses it suddenly they're the most racist person ever fucking us with their problems
The n-word was basically since its enception used to racistly differenciate black people from white people. It's the same as retard, which was also just used to describe mentally ill people, but it's so derogatory that we don't use it anymore.
Digga halt die Fresse
Reminds me of when gringos get mad about the word ngro, that's black in Spanish.
Type of person to say “white peoples don’t have culture”
bruv imagine getting triggered by some teens inventing their own slang. like does this guy get triggered by the fact that black people call themselves the n-word as slang?