• @[email protected]
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    Also, ‘Negro’ isn’t the N word. Capital N Negro was the preferred term for decades, up until the Malcolm X era.

  • THCDenton
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    Then it’s settled. I have Polish heritage and therefore posses the N-word pass.

      • @[email protected]
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        *lands in haiti*

        *walks out of the terminal*

        *stand there a moment, looks around*

        *takes a big breath*

        NNNNNNNNN…

      • @tty5
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        Well, it definitely would not be easy to use in Poland: according to the last census out of almost 38,000,000 people fewer than 200 are black.

      • @[email protected]
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        tbh in most of the world’s countries if you say it people are just going to wonder wtf you’re on about, and in a large chunk of them it’d just be like randomly saying “yellow”

  • @grue
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    Ah, so that’s where the Lemmy dev’s screen name comes from. Neat.

  • @MindSkipperBro12
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    That man is a true revolutionary, like Washington and Bolivar, of the Americas.

    • @[email protected]
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      He also forced his people to go back to work in the plantations or in the army under pain of death. The Poles got real lucky that they got classified as honorary blacks, too, because he ordered a genocide of all white people.

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        The country kept its slaves and the country was involved in a genocide of its native population, basically almost like Washington and America.😊

        That and it depends on your belief if he’s justified for the genocide or not as a nice case of… what did that clown say? Ah, yes: “You get what you fucking deserve!”

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          Does that justify murdering almost every single Frenchman and Frenchwoman?

          He did not care if they owned slaves or not. He did not care what their opinion on Tainos was. He killed them all.

          Off-topic, but the residents of Hispaniola did a whole lot more than you folks up North. You still have natives. We don’t.

  • @robocall
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    After that, Dessalines got murdered.

  • ZILtoid1991
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    Isn’t Vaush/Ian Kochinski like part-Polish? That makes the N-word incident not problematic.

    • @TotallynotJessica
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      Politics and culture have more weight than pure geography. Haiti is better described as part of the Caribbean, which like the Pacific Islands, is almost it’s own thing. Geographically, it’s more North than South American, but that distinction isn’t useful for understanding it. The Americas can be broken down into the zones of Central, North, South, and the Caribbean. Culturally, it can best be divided in two as English America and Latin America. The traditional North vs South line betrays how the US and Canada relate to every other American country.

      I wish we legally recognized overlap with our geographic categorization. Eastern Europe overlaps with both Europe and Asia. North and South America overlap in Central America and the Caribbean. The Middle East overlaps with Asia, Africa, Western Europe, and Eastern Europe. Regions really aren’t exclusive.

  • @Harpsist
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    Didn’t the Italians get the negro treatment too?

    Like. Right here in North America? Considered just a step above being black?

  • @hOrni
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    211 months ago

    Anyone want my pass? I feel like I’m not gonna use it.

    • @tty5
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      Napoleon sent polish troops to fight a slave rebellion, poles declared they were supposed to fight for freedom not against it and changed sides.