• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    And they crop the billboard out in the photo so we can’t decide for ourselves how bad it is.

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      2 months ago

      Given that this person is being prosecuted for holding up this billboard in public, perhaps the newspaper is erring on the side of caution by not reprinting it!

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        1 month ago

        From article:

        He said the term “coconut” was a “well-known racial slur which has a very clear meaning” to the effect that “you may be brown on the outside, but you’re white on the inside. In other words, you’re a race traitor – you’re less brown or black than you should be.”

        That’s a different definition of ‘coconut’ than I hear here in NZ. Here it’s usually just a (derogatory) term for any Pacific Islander, because they come from where coconuts come from.

        Gotta love slang/slurs.