• SmokeyDope@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    “The fuck is a wog”

    does internet search

    “okay cool English specific term for darker colored foreigner ethnicity people but apparently its a derogatory racial slur so why would someone identify themselves as one?”

    Serious question by the way, is that like your cultures version of “we’ve appropriated a word you used to insult our kind and now pridefully incorporate it as a positive association word into our minority culture, and theres nothing you racist squares can do about it” or am I missing something?

    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
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      10 hours ago

      its a derogatory racial slur so why would someone identify themselves as one?"

      Reclaiming slurs is cool. Less power to those who would use them against us. One of the reasons I don’t agree with the trend of constantly moving towards whatever the politically correct language of the day is. We’re just handing more insults to the assholes.

      See https://sh.itjust.works/post/31758327 for related discussion

    • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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      23 hours ago

      I’m using “wog” as a direct translation to Portuguese “carcamano” (Italian descendant, mildly derogatory). It’s directed towards my own group* so I’m outright reclaiming it.

      *JK I’m a mutt. Proud to be one BTW. But yeah, carcamani in my family all the way down.

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        23 hours ago

        In Australia it’s an acceptable term, eg the movie “The Wog Boy”. In London it’s akin n to the n-word and not appropriate, I think London uses it as an abbreviation of golliwog, those racist dolls.