iridaniotter [she/her]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agoThe pro-Palestine immigrants gave me a hate name... Svenhexbear.netimagemessage-square75fedilinkarrow-up1143arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1143arrow-down1imageThe pro-Palestine immigrants gave me a hate name... Svenhexbear.netiridaniotter [she/her]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square75fedilinkfile-text
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minus-squareSkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·1 year agoI don’t speak or read swedish but my big brain tells me that this “slur” is just the equivalent of just calling someone a “Swede”, right?
minus-squareFlyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·1 year agoIt’s like calling an English person Tommy, as far as I am concerned.
minus-squareIvarK@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·1 year agoYeah more or less. It’s used like cracker but for white swedes and it’s really funny (disclaimer I’m a svenne)
minus-squareAmaltheamannen@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 year agoExcept its not even intended to be offensive. It’s been used before the massive immigration.
minus-squareiridaniotter [she/her]@hexbear.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·1 year agoNo it’s based on the name Sven
minus-squareSkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 year agoThat doesn’t seem like an insult to me
minus-squarefox [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 year agoIt’s the same as calling a German Hans or an American Johnny.
minus-squareAmaltheamannen@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year agoIt’s not. It’s mostly used to refer to a very stereotypically Swedish person.
minus-squareSkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoThe Redditor seems to be projecting this word to mean something it’s not then, they must have been called it and felt offended because: . So cringe.
minus-squareSoyViking [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoIt sounds like it is literally just an affectionate diminutive form of the given name Sven.
minus-squareCTHlurker [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year agoIs “Sven” a common swedish old-person name like “Svend” is in Denmark and Norway?
minus-squareAmaltheamannen@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year agoOld and middle aged mostly in my experience.
I don’t speak or read swedish but my big brain tells me that this “slur” is just the equivalent of just calling someone a “Swede”, right?
It’s like calling an English person Tommy, as far as I am concerned.
Yeah more or less. It’s used like cracker but for white swedes and it’s really funny (disclaimer I’m a svenne)
Except its not even intended to be offensive. It’s been used before the massive immigration.
True true it’s funny either way
No it’s based on the name Sven
That doesn’t seem like an insult to me
It’s the same as calling a German Hans or an American Johnny.
It’s not. It’s mostly used to refer to a very stereotypically Swedish person.
The Redditor seems to be projecting this word to mean something it’s not then, they must have been called it and felt offended because:
. So cringe.
It sounds like it is literally just an affectionate diminutive form of the given name Sven.
Is “Sven” a common swedish old-person name like “Svend” is in Denmark and Norway?
Old and middle aged mostly in my experience.