• lobut@lemmy.ca
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    15 hours ago

    I love redheads and I didn’t really understand the “ginger” hate in the US – just thought it was dumb exaggerated stuff. I moved (back) to the UK and so many people were like “gingers are disgusting” “hey lobut, ask Sam what colour his pubes are” … I’m like wtf is going on here, I don’t understand it?

    Some of my UK friends said it comes from the hatred of the Irish? Not sure why it’d be like that in the US though, it all seems weird to me.

    • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 hours ago

      Speaking as a redhead who got bullied for it a bit in school, the south park episode really upped the hate when it came out and started the whole “gingers don’t have souls” line