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minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·16 hours agoNot one in common usage, but yeah.
minus-squareHerbal Gamer@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·14 hours agoOk and who would be offended?
minus-squareKalothar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·edit-26 hours agoSome older Italian Americans, what is this a racism/xenophobia validity check? Edit: apologies for jumping to any undue conclusion, I initially thought you were feigning ignorance
minus-squareBigDiction@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·12 hours agoChrist three replies where no one actually answers their question directly and you’re dragging them? OP - Wop = without papers It’s a epithet against Italians who immigrated to the United States.
minus-squareHerbal Gamer@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down2·12 hours agoThanks! Seems a bit dated to still be racist against Italians nowadays, I thought they mostly moved on to different ethnicities by now.
minus-squareBigDiction@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-212 hours agoYeah it’s older for sure, but my friends grandma got called that in like 70s and beat some lady up for it. Cop let her go. That’s how I learned about it from a deep Italian American family.
minus-squareHerbal Gamer@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·12 hours agoNo, just a clueless european who never heard of this as an insult before.
minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 hours agoLook, all I said was that it’s a slur.
Is it?
Not one in common usage, but yeah.
Wop? or Comrade Moose?
Not Comrade Moose.
Ok and who would be offended?
Some older Italian Americans, what is this a racism/xenophobia validity check?
Edit: apologies for jumping to any undue conclusion, I initially thought you were feigning ignorance
Christ three replies where no one actually answers their question directly and you’re dragging them?
OP - Wop = without papers
It’s a epithet against Italians who immigrated to the United States.
Thanks! Seems a bit dated to still be racist against Italians nowadays, I thought they mostly moved on to different ethnicities by now.
Yeah it’s older for sure, but my friends grandma got called that in like 70s and beat some lady up for it. Cop let her go.
That’s how I learned about it from a deep Italian American family.
No, just a clueless european who never heard of this as an insult before.
Look, all I said was that it’s a slur.