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It's kind of Finnish way of expressing things. We might say "jos sä teet tän näin, voisit vetää ittes hirteen" (if you do it like this, you might want to hang y
by pimeys 14y ago
It's kind of Finnish way of expressing things. We might say "jos sä teet tän näin, voisit vetää ittes hirteen" (if you do it like this, you might want to hang yourself) without actually meaning it literally. We have less PC compared to many other countries and I still find it refreshing while living outside of the country.
- antirez 14y agotell me what "PC" means or go hang yourself.
- pimeys 14y agoPolitical correctness. Mostly comes from USA, but exists also in other countries. Like in Germany people have lots of PC for Jewish people.
- antirez 14y agoThanks, I don't like PC too much either, seems like hypocrisy most of the time. We also in Italy have little of it. I mean, instead of PC one should make sure to treat everybody in a fair way, but even if somebody is in a minority of some kind, if he/she does silly things, it is offensive to don't respond to it (possibly in a rough way) in the same way you would reply to everybody else.
- slowpoke 14y ago>Like in Germany people have lots of PC for Jewish people. Which is probably also the best example of why PC is dumb. For example, it's hard to criticize Israel in German politics. At best, you'll be looked at in funny ways, at the worst you'll be accused of being a nazi.
- pimeys 14y agoThere are good things in the anti nazi movement. People still remember and they don't want it to happen again. Still I don't understand why you can't criticize the politics of Israel in Germany. Even my Israeli friends do it.
- netrus 14y agoYou can. Just make sure you say something smart, and everything is fine. The shitstorm might be, however, a little bigger than usual if you say something stupid. (Günter Grass' poem etc.)
- slowpoke 14y agoI never tried to imply that it's bad to be vigilant of fascism and right-wing ideology. I'm very much among the first people who'd step up to prevent an abomination like the Third Reich to ever happen again. I hold high respect for people such as Stauffenberg and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who risked and ultimately laid down their lives fighting against the Nazis. The motivation behind the German PC towards Jews and Israel isn't motivated by that, though. Maybe it originally was, but these days it's but a way to silence opposition to the questionable politics of the Israeli government. To be fair, it's slowly fading out, probably not in small part thanks to the emergence of the internet and new political movements, such as the Pirate Party. Also, it's not like you can't criticize Israeli politics in Germany. It's that you will see few politicians who are willing to do it openly, because it's a minefield.
- Roritharr 14y agoThis went into Godwin territory really fast...
- yena 14y agoAlthough Linus is from Finland, he comes from the Swedish-speaking minority population there and his native language is Swedish. Sweden itself is pretty PC, but I don't know if that goes for the Finnish-Swedish as well, or if it is just Linux being Linus
- pimeys 14y agoMy mother's husband is a Swedish speaking Finn and the cultures are quite the same. They are not Swedish people, they are Finns. The difference may be that they're a bit more international and also some studies say they enjoy life more than a typical Finn. The whole country has two official languages, but Finnish-Swedish people use Sweden as their everyday language.
- donpark 14y agoFinnish expressions are like Korean expressions. "나가 죽어" is a common Korean expression meaning "go outside and die."