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It’s roughly the same as calling the French President Emmanuel Macaroon during a hypothetical baked goods scandal or Emmanuel Bacon during a hypothetical pork b
by quickthrowman 4y ago
It’s roughly the same as calling the French President Emmanuel Macaroon during a hypothetical baked goods scandal or Emmanuel Bacon during a hypothetical pork belly scandal.
Con man = Kwon man
I’m not sure how a rhyming pun is offensive, could you elaborate on why it is? Would it be racist if he was a European person named Walter Kahn and the headline had Kahn Man in the title?
- tarsinge 4y agoNow that you bring it’s maybe a cultural difference because I can’t really remember the last time I saw or heard a pun on a politician name in the news, even of opposite sides. Making fun of someone family name is of very poor taste and is not something you will find in public. So I guess my gut reaction as a French seeing a pun on family name (not okay in the first place) + foreign sounding name was it’s racist, because honestly only real racists could attempt that here. I know that sound maybe too sensitive which is quite paradoxical because I usually find Americans generally way more PC on these subjects than us. Edit: for more cultural background I think maybe it’s because there are common French family names literally translating as “Thefat”, “Chicken”, “Myass”, “Thegay”, “Sausage”, “Thewhite”… so it’s learned early in school to be respectful of others names.