• casskaydee [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    The only instance I think I’ve ever seen of self identified racists coining a new term for a place using the “stan” suffix is “Kekistan” which is their tongue in cheek name for a fictional country embodying the ideals of white nationalism. So not exactly used by them in a derogatory sense, quite the opposite

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      3 months ago

      You’ve never seen the term “Londonistan” just as an example?

      There was also Kid Rock selling a shirt in 2016 with “Dumbfuckistan” as the name for the blue states in the presidential election. I personally would avoid using that suffix in derogatory contexts because of the not-so-subtle Islamophobic connotation shrug-outta-hecks