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| jbottero @ 2012-07-29 22:41:19 | |
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Is that what it is really call? I know it's politically incorrect for me to say this, but I find that simply staggeringly hilarious. In the United States, there would certainly be stadiums full of "outraged" people bursting blood vessels in their foreheads over such a name.
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| romulusnr @ 2012-07-30 11:55:14 | |
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And the reason for that is because the word "homo" has not been used as a derogatory slur in Netherlands as it has in the U.S.
From Wikipedia: "The word homo occurs in many other languages without the pejorative connotations it has in English" If this monument were called, for example, "Flikkermonument", or "Pottenmonument", however, there *would* be stadiums of angry Dutch gays and allies -- "flikker" and "potten" are Dutch slurs for gay, whereas "homo" has not been used in that way, and as a result it remains common and unoffensive there. |
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