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R.I.P. my sauerkraut fan club

Let me be the first to bring Jung into this, "What you resist, persists", in trying to avoid the usage of slurs, you had to go and commit them to a public branch of source code to be saved in the arctic vault for eternity.

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Funny enough I went to a Krautrock mini-festival a few weeks ago, here in Germany. Nobody I know cares about the term "kraut". At this point it is just outdated WW2 lingo that never caught on here.

I feel like "Kartoffel" is often used in a more offensive way. Although I've never really seen someone getting really offended.

I think that is one group of people where English-based slurs haven't stuck. But on the other hand the languages around Germany have still plenty of slurs for Germans, which funnily won't be caught by the bluesky filter.

Funny, I’ve heard potet in Norway as well. Is this a common slur in Germanic countries?

It's supposedly used by neighbor countries and foreigners to refer to Germans. But it's common to see people of other areas using potato-related slurs against Irish and Russians too.

R.I.P. my friend Tito

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