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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

https://www.etymonline.com/word/paddy

Paddy-wagon is attested by 1930, perhaps so called because many police officers were Irish. Paddywhack (1811) originally meant "an Irishman;" with the second element apparently added vaguely for emphasis.

It's not clear if it's a slur or not, or just slang for referring to an Irishman.

I think it might be closer to referring to a Scotsman as "a Scot" than anything pejorative.

Then again, you never know with the English... and it ultimately comes down to how the Irish feel about it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think anything that's slang for an ethnic group has like a 90% probability of being a slur

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

If it doesn't start as one, it becomes one.