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-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.
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.