can I make fun of croatians for being nazi collaborators or is this a sensitive subject? (lemmy.ml)

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Also is referring to them as croats insensitive? It feels like a slur tbh. If it isn't a slur can I call them scroats? Some croation on tiktok was valuing whiteness a lil too much so I made fun of them and wanted to make sure I wasn't being unintentionally shitty since I know little about this region

Edit: is croat pronounced krote or crow-at

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Crow-at, or you can call them Hrvatska or Hervatskan, since that's their endonym...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Damn, so scroat doesn't really work. Highly unfortunate. Granted, altering the term for an ethnicity in order to make it offensive probably hasn't been a good thing historically.

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