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Re:My experience as a Gazan girl getting into Silicon Valley... by Ansil849 on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @03:31PM (#26255395)
> Europe doesn't talk as much about gender and race, but they actually do things as well, while in the USA everyone kinda pats their back for "walking out for Black Lifes Matter" and calls it a day.

Please explain how things like 'Zwarte Piet' fit into your narrative? I remember the first time I walked around a town center around the holidays and was accosted by multiple white Europeans in blackface asking for donations.

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Re:My experience as a Gazan girl getting into Silicon Valley... by Udik on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @06:04PM (#26257390)
I think Zwarte Piet is racist only when seen through American lenses. Which unfortunately today is the norm, but that doesn't make it more sensible. Zwarte Piet is basically Santa's little helper, as they exist in many traditions. He's black so he's represented by people with their face painted black. The fact that blackface has a connotation of racism in a country where racial laws where abolished only in 1964 has nothing to do with the substance and meaning of a Dutch Christmas tradition.
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Re:My experience as a Gazan girl getting into Silicon Valley... by imbnwa on Thursday February 25, 2021 @12:03PM (#26265046)
> Zwarte Piet is basically Santa's little helper, as they exist in many traditions.

Why is a Moor from pre-Reconquista Spain Santa's little helper?

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Re:My experience as a Gazan girl getting into Silicon Valley... by Udik on Thursday February 25, 2021 @08:13PM (#26270470)
For the same reason Santa has a beard, lives at the North Pole and passes through the chimneys.
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Re:My experience as a Gazan girl getting into Silicon Valley... by Ansil849 on Thursday February 25, 2021 @04:41PM (#26268689)
And you feel that the fact that the "helper" is black is only racist because it is seen through an American lens?
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