• Fifrok@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 days ago

      Westoid is also 4chan slang. Based on XVIII racist ethymology (mongoloid).

      Am I being trolled? Is this what’s happening here?

      Edit: didn’t see you are on .ml, I keep forgeting to block the instance. Will do that now, sorry.

      • thatsnomayo [he/him]@lemmy.mlB
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        2 days ago

        No, it isn’t. -oid suffix is also used by a lot of people to mean like, ,“pseudo”, like “humanoid”, this is something my funny brain-poisoned third worldist friends say. & when it’s derogatory it’s no more spicy than saying cracker.

        It doesn’t mean “western R word” it means “someone who is spiritually a Westerner or above”—many English-speaking Filipinos on Twitter with anime profile pictures are Westoids. It does have usefulness.

        I was called a Mongoloid in 4th grade due to not being hotdog colored so I wouldn’t find that funny.