Re:EU's GPS satellites have been down for four days in myste...
by toyg on Monday July 15, 2019 @10:36AM
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>> [Italy is] not some random backwater.
> And nobody really thinks that.
As an Italian expat, I can assure you this is unfortunately incorrect.
> you can't make simple jokes anymore
No, you can't make jokes based on lazy stereotypes that end up affecting the lives of millions. It's a different thing. It might have been fundamentally innocuous, back when populations didn't mix as much as we do today, but now it's a real problem. If I go to a job interview and the potential employer assumes Italian == lazy, I'm done for. That's the casual bigotry that these jokes end up entrenching.
As an Italian expat, I can assure you this is unfortunately incorrect.
> you can't make simple jokes anymore
No, you can't make jokes based on lazy stereotypes that end up affecting the lives of millions. It's a different thing. It might have been fundamentally innocuous, back when populations didn't mix as much as we do today, but now it's a real problem. If I go to a job interview and the potential employer assumes Italian == lazy, I'm done for. That's the casual bigotry that these jokes end up entrenching.