Different country, this is a Dutch tradition. As a Dutch man, this shit is racist as hell and they know it. Anyone who still adores black Pete or dons the blackface is a racist motherfucker.
6 to 8 did you say??
Nothing prepared me for this when I moved from the US to NLD. My first year I was so shocked. One Sunny Bergman documentary later (Zwart Als Roet) and I was vindicated. Nuts that it still goes on. Ongeloofelijk (unbelievable)!
Kohl-pech-raben-schwarz as it goes in one german story about saint nicolas, not just black but kohl-pech-raben-schwarz. Black-black-black-black-black :3
Different Sect.
I was in Spain a few years ago, and decided against certain mementos for this reason. Sorry, it may not be KKK, but I won’t display a whirling log in my house for similar reasons…
I got a wonderful Buddhist hanging charm for my car with a nice big 卍 (wàn) on it and you better believe I don’t give a fig what people are gonna think about that!
You absolutely need to have a prop to represent Buddha’s heart and mind hanging from your rear view mirror to achieve nirvana?
I’m not a Buddhist, but that don’t seem like the path…
What’s with the log?
And this means A-Okay, not whatever the hell nazis decided.
Incidentally, if you’re one of the people who changed from this to a thumbs-up to make sure nobody thought you were evil, the thumbs-up gesture in Australia means “up yours”. Morally perfect hand gestures aren’t easy.
Apparently, in Spain thumbs up means someone “horned” you, betrayed you with someone else.
Uh, no. The ‘devil horn’ sign, aka heavy metal salute DOES mean that. Thumbs up is just ‘thumbs up’ (it’s an imported/borrowed sign, as far as ai know)
Oh, right, jumbled it up.
That means 0 and no one can convince me otherwise
Australian here. Sorry that’s not a thing. Maybe if you gestured the thumbs up in a particular way? (Usually moving your whole arm up and of towards your shoulder? Honestly hard to explain in text). But that’s kind of a whole new gesture, not a thumbs up.
Don’t be afraid of doing the thumbs up here, we all do it and know what it means.
Admittedly my info is a couple decades old. When my college friends studying in Australia tried to hitchhike with their thumbs, drivers angrily returned the gesture. They were later informed that it meant “up yours” and that the correct way was to point an index finger toward where they wanted to go. Maybe years of Americans visiting have changed this.
Funny thing from an Australian friend who moved to Seattle where I live - we used to have a restaurant called Dag’s that served “Dag-burgers”. She said to her “dags” were little balls of shit clinging to a sheep’s fur. She sent home a photo of herself by the sign and her relatives thought it was hysterical.
Ahh there you go, maybe hitchhiking culture was different down here. Although I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone attempting to hitch-hike in my life tbh. Just not something people do anymore I guess. (Maybe it happens in more rural areas).
You’re not wrong about your culture spreading though. Halloween wasn’t even considered a thing when I was growing up. Now… depending on where you live you get kids attempting it. But it’s still a minority. Many grumpy home-owners saying “this isn’t America!” still exist.
‘Dag’ is certainly some aussie slang. Although I’ve never heard it used like that, I spose that might be its origin (sheep shearers are kind of a historical working class icon here). These days it’s probably be more synonymous with “dork”, or wearing some unfashionable clothing.
What about “rattle your dags”? Meaning to get going, often when late.
It was explained to me that dags were dried balls of shit stuck to hair
hahaha, I’ve never heard that before but It sure sounds amusing.
Like I said before, I think that very well may be the origin of the term. But it’s certainly not commonly use in the city like that these days.
Unless you flash it below your waist, then it means you can punch them if they see it
How tf did this ever become a thing
Like I know obviously it’s just a funny excuse to punch your friend the same way a VW Beetle is but like,
“make a ring with your fingers and hold it near your dick and then call for your friend’s attention and then when he gives you attention, proving that he’s a good friend that listens to you, laugh at him and then punch him in the kidney”
Does this not seem insane to anyone else, I have to know the etymology of this but I don’t know how to look it up
Sure wait I got the history. It’s a bit long:
History
Only if it’s upside down, above the knee, and not if they put a finger through it without breaking eye contact
KKK stole the outfit from earlier Christian rituals.
Specifically Catholic. It’s a great example of appropriation.
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White supremacists stole from another culture? Shocking, that’s never happened before
It’s their culture too, Americans didn’t spontaneously generate as a colony. These outfits are from Europe.
The funny thing is that they had periods where they hated Catholics almost as much as their other targets while pretending to be a holy order of Catholic knights. They were literally the exact same kind of Christo-fascist as modern neo-crusaders but wouldn’t let Catholics in.
For some reason, I’m thinking of the scene in Django Unchained where the guy is griping that his wife worked hard on this!
So just a slightly different flavor.
To give some context, originally a ‘nazareno’ is somebody paying penitence for sins committed since last years Easter. Part of their ‘penitence’ is to march in procession covered with those robes. The ‘capirote’ (the hood) is intended to keep those sinners (that could be important or well known people) anonymous.
I’m not sure if this is still valid today or if it’s now just a performance. Someone from the south of Spain will more about that than myself.
Supremacists always appropriate things. Ok symbol, sacred numbers/symbols, clothing, words, deities, and twist it to exclude.
Because fascists have no creativity.
As a general rule at least… I guess you can end up with a Leni Riefenstahl every now and then, but for the most part, if you were a good artist at the time in Germany, you were a target. And I guess one could call Josef Mengele “creative” if you remove all positive connotations from the word.
Conservatives are incapable of original thought. Every joke they have and every insult they sling is just something they heard from a leftist, bastardized.
Maybe leftists could drop the insults and adopt healing language…
The right has gone full Reich.
No. I would rather go to prison than ever speak kindly to a Nazi.
I don’t think “they go low, we go low” is improving anything.
Yep. There are still swastikas all over Korea because it’s been associated with Buddhists for far longer than Hitler who appropriated it. Freaks out visiting westerners, though.
It’s not just Buddhists. Asatru, Norse/Germanic cultures, too. It ticks me off we have to give up things sacred to us because they’ve been misused. Aleister Crowley reveled in it and played it to the hilt, though. Yeats was not amused.
And Hindu.
Probably more, too.
Everybody appropriates.
This language that you are speaking is appropriated from a bunch of other languages and cultures.
Is it appropriation if you treat people and their culture with respect? Because i dont think the issue here is how the KKK dresses. It is what they stand for ideologically and what they do. That is what makes it appropriation imo.
I want to agree with you, but I’m not so sure. I think different individuals have very different thoughts on that. And now I need to sit with this for a while.
Are you asking me?
Yes, has no inherent bias or prejudice.
That’s true.
True, but there are nuances. Stealing a symbol and giving it new meaning by using it for a different purpose is obviously a worse kind of appropriation than adopting language and culture.
So it’s not just regular appropriation, it’s the bad kind of appropriation. Because they’re bad.
Have I got that right?
Appropriation implies a form of exclusivity and denying the original’s validity. As in:
KKK took that symbol and forever changed everyone’s association with it to their own org.
It’s not appropriation to use a thing, it’s appropriation to treat your use of the thing as the correct/real one.
Yes. Cause it’s different when I do it. I really have to sit with this.
So annoying. Same with swastika.
not KKK
That is exactly what … well, what a KKK member would never actually say, so it’s legit.
I got my own little guy I bought as a souvenir in Malaga during Semana Santa (Holy Week) 2013
I call him Miguel
If not KKK, why KKK shaped?
Learn history?
Ironically the US KKK would have hated the Catholics whose dress they co-opted.
How so???
Despite most of their beleifs being in alignment
So, you’re saying that the KKK has an irrational hatred?
I saw the processions for Semana Santa a few years ago in Madrid. My girlfriend knew I hadn’t seen this before and didn’t tell me just so she could see my reaction.
I was fairly shocked, and asked her what the craic with that was.
She explained the KKK stole the look, and this celebration outdates the KKK by many years.
Probably centuries.
In Spain they are called Nazarenos and are integral to the easter ceremonies of Semana Santa.
Hilarious that the name starts with Naz…
Also Seman Santa lul
I’m a child
Nazgul?
As in Nazereth. People from Nazareth.
Not really
Didn’t the KKK get their aesthetic sensibility from various medieval/early-modern religious paramilitary organisations like the Spanish Inquisition and the Holy Vehm?
Like all regressive movements, they’re incapable of original thought and constantly steal aesthetic from others. Yes.
To be fair, christianity is a medley of ancient and medieval cultures and stories.
If you create brand new symbols then nobody knows what yr talking about. Borrowing other people’s symbols is really the only way to be understood.
It’s really not. It’s just a lot easier to steal than create.
Lemmy in a nutshell.
What do you mean?
People eternally apologizing to people who misunderstood them.
Oh I see! Lol
