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[–] MrFappy 208 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Customer: “can I get a coffee, black?”

Robinson: “can’t you see I’m talkin, white?”

[–] Bosht 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Zach and Miri make a porno, right? Knew the bit in the comic was familiar

[–] MrFappy 7 points 1 month ago

It is indeed

[–] TwoBeeSan 154 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'll take an African American coffee.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 165 points 1 month ago (1 children)

African Americano

Come on 🤨

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

El americano es negro.🤨

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[–] YaDownWitCPP 46 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You've just offended the Jamaican guy who doesn't have US citizenship.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

That's okay, he won't be here for much longer come next year.

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[–] andros_rex 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

“Black” just works as a better term. It’s hilarious when people refer to black folks from other countries as “African American.”

I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone offended by being called “black.”

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Lemminary 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

(Rebranded to "Nito" a while back)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Back when I was a kid, "bimbo" was another slur for black people.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Just curious: where was that? Since I was a child, "Bimbo" meant a dumb, attractive, woman, and implied promiscuity. I heard it most in (Italian) gangster movies, mostly. From what I can tell, the racial slur meaning is used in Germany.

Funny; I lived in Germany for a couple of years and never heard that version, but then, I didn't hang out with the types that would be inclined to teach it to me. I got standard cuss words and some colloquial Bavarian curses.

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[–] FlyingSquid 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It's a slur for white blonde women in the U.S.

🤷

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[–] qbert 24 points 1 month ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

In latin america we say "Mi negro, mi flaco, mi gordo, mi pelado" ("My black, my skinny, my fatty, my baldie") and could not care less. Sometimes even to strangers.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Wow, I was way off. ☹️ I guessed "My flaccid black penis is named Gordo".

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[–] DragonsInARoom 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The most american post I've seen so far

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Wait, what would the problem be with asking for a café solo?

[–] qbert 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (24 children)

Wait, what would the problem be with asking for a café solo?

¿Cómo se dice "black" en español?

[–] ignotum 45 points 1 month ago

I think the Spanish word for black is N
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Personally, I’d be like “what the fuck are talking about?”

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

...where's your instrument?

[–] Shardikprime 27 points 1 month ago (4 children)

In Spanish we ask for a café negro or café negrito all the time and guess how many people are offended about it? Zero.

[–] johannesvanderwhales 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nobody is offended by it in English, either. This comic is, y'know, a joke.

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[–] derfunkatron 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I’m guessing you don’t remember a few years back when a YouTuber got upset about a country called “Montenegro”?

Never underestimate the power of Americans to get offended, especially on another’s behalf.

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[–] DarkCloud 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This week in imagined things that don't actually happen.

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[–] mineralfellow 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Used to go to a coffee shop where the barista would say, "You want it black, like me?"

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[–] abbotsbury 17 points 1 month ago

This is dumb, like really really dumb. So dumb it's unrecognizable from conservative propaganda about how the libs are too triggered to even order black coffee.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago
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