• SomeLemmyUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 hours ago

    Are you dumb or just uninformed?

    At least here in germany the Nazis heavily used it and gassed blacks, no american influence need to make decent people avoid it.

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      2 hours ago

      If so, avoid it. Idc about german case, there is some other languages that likely use it as a slur, but the main source of it is america. You see, in Estonia, ‘neeger’ used to mean any black guy, without being racial slur. But recently it was considered slur, because teenagers influenced by american culture started using it as a slur, eventually leading to its ban. And I dont mind , it just now i have to unnaturally replace it with two much longer words. And I see this as a useless adoption, the less words have offensive meaning, the better.

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      8 hours ago

      no American influence

      Well, yes and no. Hitler did love all the racism we were so good at, so he did copy our notes pretty extensively. But yes, no American exceptionalism was exported for this crime against humanity, just imported.

      • SomeLemmyUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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        8 hours ago

        Ofc facists around the world influence each other, but thinking Americans invented it? You ever heard of colonialism? Where the n word was invented? Yeah that’s a European invention not american.