Every time a katsap does something evil, Ukrainians get the blame.
For those who don’t know, Simonyan is one of the most famous propagandists in Russia. And “katsap” is an ethnic slur for a Russian. We’ve been laughing over this joke for three days, it’s really funny.
““katsap” is an ethnic slur for a Russian”
The word is used in Polish but has heavy soviet connotations… either the original or those wanting to rebuild it. The usual slur against russians is ruski/ruska – plural ruscy or especially rude ruskie. The rossijane/russke distinction doesn’t exist in Polish, rosjanin/rosjanka/rosjanie (adj rosyjski) are polite and ruski etc are rude.
One source I looked at said the etymology of ‘kacap’ isn’t known but it might well be a borrowing from Yiddish from Lviv where a similar word means ‘idiot’….
Kasap is a turkish word, it means butcher.
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I’m not really convinced that Russia has significant global influence. In SA, people only know Putin and maybe Abramovich because he owned Chelsea.
Compare this to the US, where I recently heard a local rapper say he felt like he was from Compton and Afrikaners are more likely to listen to country music than anything Dutch.
Yes, Russia is a failed culture that only evokes interest as some sort of an utterly imaginary “anti-America.” People never really talk about Russia. Russia is a stand-in for “I despise the US.”
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