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Hasan Piker banned from Twitch for calling ICE supporters "rabid ultra-Zionist pigs' (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today -2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Pigs is so 1960s. Today, I call them Apes.

[–] CombatWombat1212@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You definitely shouldn't because of racist history behind that word

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today -3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

But "Ice Apes" has such a nice ring to it, don't you think? We can't use it in an appropriate context because some dumb racists claimed it already? That's no fun. I think it's time to reclaim it, and reframe it.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

"Frost trolls" maybe?

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

We are all ape