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Why is polack considered a slur in America? - Reddit It's what most germanic European languages call the people of Poland, including mine It's even "polak" in Polish itself, Polak, iirc I don't think it has the same deragotary value in British English either Why is it considered a slur in the U S?
A person from Poland is called. . . : r poland - Reddit Yes, Polack is the slur Pole is perfectly fine Although in Polish itself, the denonym for a Polish person is "Polak", so it gets a bit tricky Basically if you're speaking in English, you should say Pole, but a Polish person saying they are a Polak (in Polish) is fine Language is funny Reply reply LHommeCrabbe • So, we get the "P pass
Why is Polack considered a racial slur in American English . . . - Reddit Why is "Polack" considered a racial slur in American English? In many languages, like mine, but also Polish itself the Polish people are known as Polacks Even in the UK it's mostly ok to say, alongside "Poles" In the US, though, it seems to be considered to be almost at the same level as the N-word for black people, the K-word for Jewish
Why do people refer to Poles as dumb? : r poland - Reddit If it's just a "dumb Polack" why should I pay him the same as us? Why give them the same rights? Yet it never siezes to amaze me how even people subjected to racial slurs will find other people to dehumanize It's like the child with an abusive parent taking it out on other children If you are Polish please don't blame everything on the Jews
How did the word “Polack” become an offensive term to the . . . - Reddit The word Polack is not well known that much anymore unless if you’re ethnically Polish or at least that’s the case where I live (Chicago) It seems odd that the Anglicisation of a Polish word (Polak, the male version for a Pole) would become offensive or degrading Archived post New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast
Poles or Polish people? : r poland - Reddit In the contemporary English language, the nouns Polack ( and ) or Polak are ethnic slurs, and derogatory references to a person of Polish descent It is an Anglicisation of the Polish masculine noun Polak, which denotes a Polish male or a person of Polish ethnicity and unspecified gender
Why so many Pollock jokes in the 80s 90s? : r GenX - Reddit I remember a bunch of Polack jokes from as early as 4th-5th grade (1980-81) I never knew why the Polish were looked down upon, but in my pre-pubescent ignorance used to laugh anyway The jokes persisted through high school, until I was in 9th-10th grade, when we had a newly-transplanted polish girl in my Algebra class
Poles or Polish people - which is better to use? - page 3 As for Polak, Polack, Pollock etc , the ones ending in -ck are obviously anglicized spellings, which again is legitimate Polish is polaco in Spanish and there the c has the k sound too