Comment on Ninja sword owners will be paid to surrender weapons before ban
Obi@sopuli.xyz 5 days agoThis “joke” has been co-opted by xenophobic conservative Americans so often that I really struggle to appreciate it, even when you use it rather innocently like here. I’m not even a Brit and have grown quite tired of it. It comes from the same bag as cheese eating surrender monkeys for the French.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Look, they get to make fun of us for our shootings, we get to make fun of them for their loicenses for everything. It’s a fair trade.
That’s actually xenophobic because the French kick ass when they feel like it. Hell, they’re basically the only reason America won independence.
Obi@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
I’m all for friendly ribbing, just a bit tired of this particular one because I saw it used in unsavoury ways too many times. Just spreading a bit of awareness about it, I could tell you weren’t being mean or actually using this as a xenophobic argument, but others before you have.