iridaniotter [she/her, she/her]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agoThe pro-Palestine immigrants gave me a hate name... Svenhexbear.netimagemessage-square66fedilinkarrow-up1130arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1130arrow-down1imageThe pro-Palestine immigrants gave me a hate name... Svenhexbear.netiridaniotter [she/her, she/her]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square66fedilinkfile-text
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minus-squareSkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·1 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-up17·1 year agoIt’s like calling an English person Tommy, as far as I am concerned.
minus-squareiridaniotter [she/her, she/her]@hexbear.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 year agoNo it’s based on the name Sven
minus-squareSkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 year agoThat doesn’t seem like an insult to me
minus-squarefox [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year agoIt’s the same as calling a German Hans or an American Johnny.
minus-squareAmaltheamannen@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoIt’s not. It’s mostly used to refer to a very stereotypically Swedish person.
minus-squareSkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 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-up2·1 year agoIt sounds like it is literally just an affectionate diminutive form of the given name Sven.
minus-squareCTHlurker [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoIs “Sven” a common swedish old-person name like “Svend” is in Denmark and Norway?
minus-squareAmaltheamannen@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 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.
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.