Some Europeans are seemingly incapable of not being patronizing and racist. It seems automatic/natural in a way that even Americans seem to have to do more intentionally
Seriously, it's like they spent hundreds of years honing preeny backhandedness into an art form while the american racism went for more of a "vile acidic sliminess" vibe
the white yankies and the br*ts are normally louder and more obviously grotesque, but the white west euro boug and petit boug got that extra level of unbearable sense that they're patronizing you like a child
It's because most Americans actually regularly interact with people of other races. Meanwhile, that section of the white population that has wholly sequestered itself in the US acts almost exactly like Europeans.
I am coming around to the idea that after 1953 the SED should have taken Brecht's advice and actually dissolved the German people and elected another.
Tarantino-esque alt-history movie idea: In the early 1950s, a CIA psywar operator of Native American descent travels around Canada, tracking down the most sociopathic teachers and priests working in the residential school system, and offers them a chance to redeem themselves by going to West Germany and taking jobs at the de-Germanification centres which the CIA is setting up. Those who refuse are, of course, violently dismembered. (This only happens onscreen once, during the pre-title scene.) Title: "Zavala's Zeroes". Everyone dies at the end.
Interesting note: East Germany was famous for its Red Westerns (or particularly "Osterns") which often portrayed the perspective of the natives.
:GDR: :ussr-cry:
Haven't gotten around to watching one myself but it seems there's enough of a cult following for people to compile lists , at least.
the emoji names are bizarre, impossible to remember them all. This spices up the website, making the variety far fresher as not everyone uses the same emotes.
They apparently got some traditional face paint done upon arriving, which is red, but I have no idea what he actually means by blue on their face.
Maybe he's a big Blue Man Group fan?
https://limitedhangoutblog.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/tintin-congo-classroom.jpeg
Same energy
The first few Tintin books were... interesting. The very first story was just anti-Soviet propaganda :michael-laugh:
They also came out in the 1920s and 30s
Hergé wasn't exactly a Nazi but boy did he radiate particles at first.
Yh the Tintin comics and cartoons in the Congo are honestly depraved. Like the shamelessness or obliviousness amazes me.
Remember first time I saw the episode on TV and even as a kid I was like WTF :mao-wtf: :what-the-hell:
Yh it became a famous belgian cartoon. Like its sickening I thought I was losing my mind when I saw it come on tv in a cafe one day.
Tintin getting cartoons is no surprise, that they'd adapt the fucking Congo story is
I'm not surprised tbh. Hergé was a far-right, fascist anti-communist. His excuse later for the animal cruelty and racism of the congo cartoons was that he, supposedly like all europeans at the time, just thought of africans as 'big children'.
I actually think I might have misremembered because when I just did a search the internet is not telling me that the animation was ever made.
I'm pretty sure that a cartoon was made of it at some point and that I saw it more than once on television. This shit got me all :alex-aware:
I bet he was so proud of himself and thought he did a great job too :germany-cool:
maybe he means when it gets really cold and your skin goes blue
He's not the foreign minister. He's the Minister of the Economy (as opposed to the Minister of Finances, which is Christian Lindner) - Cem Özdemir is the Minister of Agriculture.
Still really embarrassing and peak :lmayo:
"in germany, when some people do not like our sophisticated cultural outputs, we bring a bag of animal feces to the opera house and publicly smear it in their face."
