DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml to GenZedong@lemmygrad.ml · 1 year agoIt's time for our annual Dutch race war period as protest against Black Pete are still going strongwww.ad.nlexternal-linkmessage-square7linkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkIt's time for our annual Dutch race war period as protest against Black Pete are still going strongwww.ad.nlDankZedong @lemmygrad.ml to GenZedong@lemmygrad.ml · 1 year agomessage-square7linkfedilink
minus-squareloathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoWhat even is the origin story of black pete? This sounds like something out of a sketch.
minus-squareProfessorOwl_PhD [any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year ago CW: more racism The modern story has a few attributions, as DankZedong says, but the version I heard was that Zwarte Piet is an ex-slave that Sint Nicolaas bought the freedom of, and Zwarte Piet was so thankful he started working for Sinterklaas. For free. Yeah.
minus-squareloathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoAh the slave to unpaid intern pipeline
What even is the origin story of black pete? This sounds like something out of a sketch.
CW: more racism
The modern story has a few attributions, as DankZedong says, but the version I heard was that Zwarte Piet is an ex-slave that Sint Nicolaas bought the freedom of, and Zwarte Piet was so thankful he started working for Sinterklaas. For free. Yeah.
Ah the slave to unpaid intern pipeline