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ingemann
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« on: August 21, 2014, 02:07:16 PM »


I think he was referring, rather hyperbolically, to Europeans discussing racism as an exclusively American issue when western European countries have towns with offensive names (and more broadly, European countries' own problems with minorities).

EDIT: Made my own wording clearer.

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"Europeans" don't say that racism doesn't exist in "Europe", we say that it's difference in ideology and practice than racism in USA, but for some reason you people are completely unable to understand what that mean, no matter how many times it's told, explained or example are given.

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« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2014, 03:15:39 AM »

How does a place name just go unnoticed for centuries?     Do the inhabitants call it something else?

Likely not, it's a place name, we may think it offensive, but these people have grown up there for generation, and that's just the name of the place.

It's no different than a person who say they come from Hell in Michigan.The name are a little less PC (today, 40 years ago it would have worse to live in a place called Hell), but honestly that's only a thing people have to come to care for the last 40 years.
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