Comment on Crassula aka Hottentot

• ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I was o: In Germany it’s a term for chaotic / messy people unrelated to race. Thanks for the context

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  • mriswith@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I grew up hearing it in childrens books, so I don’t blame you for not knowing. But it’s one of those phrases that in hindsight is obviously offensive based on how it was used.

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    • ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My mother used it similar to “in your room it looks like below the sofa of family Hempel” (“hier sieht’s aus wie bei Hempels unterm Sofa”). So my naive brain thought it’s just another family name

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  • gid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sorry, I didn’t intend my comment to appear as policing what you wrote! I was just taken aback by the common name.

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    • ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s fine, it didn’t :)

      But your comment without the additional context that was provided by another user wouldn’t have helped me to understand what’s going on.

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