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• BigDiction@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Christ three replies where no one actually answers their question directly and you’re dragging them?

  OP - Wop = without papers

  It’s a epithet against Italians who immigrated to the United States.

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  • HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks! Seems a bit dated to still be racist against Italians nowadays, I thought they mostly moved on to different ethnicities by now.

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    • BigDiction@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah it’s older for sure, but my friends grandma got called that in like 70s and beat some lady up for it. Cop let her go.

      That’s how I learned about it from an deep Italian American family.

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• HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, just a clueless european who never heard of this as an insult before.

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