Ok, there was ONE TIME when I worked with a bunch of blacks gals...it was a graphic department and it was 7 black girls, a Jewish guy and me.
Sounds like a setup for a joke.
But I was very young and jsut starting work in Manhattan and nobody told me yet how IMPORTANT it was that I identify people by color and race and religion...and so we all got along very well.
One time one girl went to grab something out of my pocket and I Said “hey what are you gong into my pocket for?”
And they all laughed. They said I sound really Italian like “whatta you in’s my pocket a’ for?”
I felt a little bad that one time :)
And it was silly and nonsensical to feel bad.
They meant NO ILL WILL.
And I realized they were right...i really did sound like an off the boat wop for a second lol
Did they really call you a kraut?
Oh...if you’re older especially, a decade or so after WWII wasn’t such a great time to be German.
I would play with tanks when I was like 9 in 1977 and I would blow up the “German tanks”
My pop tells me one day..”no no no!! That’s OLD news. Blow up the Soviet tank!!”
And from then on out, I blew up the soviet tanks and no more Germans :)
God I rambled here!!
Hmmm…if I may ask, is „Kraut“ that terrible of a slur? I mean, I have been called that on FR quite a number of times. But there were plenty of other Freepers who told me to beware of these particular people.🙂
A big thank you to all of them! You are truly the kindest people I have ever met on the Internet 😀 God bless you all 🙏🏻
I have been called much worse, though, to be fair, never to my face. But the worst by far on the Internet, as concerns name-calling, are leftists of any nation.
Though what I have read from German nationalist extremists was avowedly not much better, and it caused me to recoil from their forum (where I had been lurking for a while) when one of them said something about the Americans which I would never dare to repeat here - and the sheer memory of it makes me blush with shame 😳