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[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] sxan@midwest.social 12 points 1 week ago (2 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.

[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I haven't heard it since I left elementary school. I only realized later that there were some really racist kids on that school. Also, it was the 80s. It's shocking to me now that I learnt basically all the racist and antisemitic jokes I know during my time at elementary school.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, me too. And a vast amount of misogynistic stuff. The latter, I suspect, was just bog-standard puberty and oral lore, most of which was crude. But I still remember many limericks.

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Apparently it is a term that began with WW2. It's highly regional and not many people use it

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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[–] ddplf@szmer.info 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, particularly those with augmented aesthetics

[–] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I never, like, asked for this

[–] ddplf@szmer.info 3 points 1 week ago

I don't think bolt-ons come naturally much often

[–] Chekhovs_Gun@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

With big breasts

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's Germany only. That's a very, very small subset of the Hispanic America population