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WCDT strips 3931-3935 (4th to 8th February 2019)
Milayna:
--- Quote from: Oenone on 08 Feb 2019, 09:24 ---Keep in mind that Tomi Lauren just tweeted something about how the votes of Americans with 4 grandparents born in the US are more significant than the votes of others, in a way where she was using lineage as a synecdoche for race. I’m someone with a stereotypically nonwhite surname, with all 4 grandparents US citizens. I’m way more likely to have my “right” to American identity questioned than Lahrens and I’m not the voter she imagines when she tweets stuff like that.
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She was also pretty obviously invoking Grandfather Clauses because you can't spell "overton window" without "black people aren't really americans and should in fact be slaves"
eschaton:
--- Quote from: Oenone on 08 Feb 2019, 09:09 ---I get why Renee was annoyed now. I bet he thought he was fucking someone “exotic” and expressed surprise Renee is a regular ol black person.
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As an aside, Jeph has gotten much, much better at drawing black people. When he first introduced Renee to the comic years ago, I thought she was South Asian like Padma, because of how she was drawn. This was a good retcon.
Though Dale still doesn't really look black to me.
TV4Fun:
--- Quote from: eschaton on 08 Feb 2019, 11:13 ---As an aside, Jeph has gotten much, much better at drawing black people. When he first introduced Renee to the comic years ago, I thought she was South Asian like Padma, because of how she was drawn. This was a good retcon.
Though Dale still doesn't really look black to me.
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Yeah, I'd say Dale looks more South Indian to me, though perhaps you should just try asking Dale where he's from.
Is it cold in here?:
Thus completely explaining why not to do it.
It would be an easy mistake for a decent person to make. On the train, white strangers will ask each other where they are from. Same words but not really the same question.
Case:
--- Quote from: Tai Fanboi on 08 Feb 2019, 04:52 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 08 Feb 2019, 04:31 ---So, here's a little bit of trivia obtained through Google and Wikipedia (so, blame them if I'm getting this wrong :-P). Lawrence, Massachusetts appears to have a past strongly linked to Germanic immigrants. So, if Brun was born there, a given name of 'Brunhilde' is not entirely unthinkable.
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Add in that Germany and Lebanon have been quite friendly diplomatic wise since the late 1700's - 1800's. It was considered the "Switzerland of the Middle East" and was a prime location for many German businessmen and a popular vacation spot. Many hotels in Lebanon were opened and run by German business men who brought in other's for cultural exchanges and tourism, and co-partnered teams of Lebanese and German archaeologists excavated the ancient sites of Baalbek, Anjar, Tell el-Burak and Kamid el-Loz. Germany also provided support to rebuild after the Lebanese Civil War.
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--- Quote from: Castlerook on 08 Feb 2019, 04:51 ---An even quicker search tells me that there are 50,000 Lebanese people living Germany. So its quite likely Brun's parents lived in Germany or were from Germany before moving to the States.
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Ok, just to preempt misunderstandings about the name Brunhilde being some quintessential German name or smth.: It is very much not.
Very few contemporary German women (roughly 1:100.000) bear the name of a Visigoth princess that translates into "she-who-fights-clad-in-armour" in a language that nobody has spoken in a millennium.
The most popular the name ever got in Germany was in 1925 - ranked place 63 - and that was probably largely due to the Wagner-opera and a fad for 'Germanic' names (The German peoples are old as balls. Germany the nation, otoh, is barely 150. The most quintessentially German question is "what does it mean to be German?". Naming your offspring 'He-who-bathes-his-famous-sword-in-the-blood-of-enemies' or whatnot was apparently considered a viable answer at the time).
And that's not considering the cruelty inherent in naming a child of Lebanese heritage after a legendary 'Norse' (*) Warrior Princess that popular imagination holds to be some blue-eyed, blonde-haired, milk-skinned ideal of the prototypical central European woman.
Note also that the Ring der Nibelungen was very much part of attempts to weave a re-imagined heroic Germanic past into a national origin myth which birthed the Völkisch brand of racism of the Nazis - 'That private form Austria' was a devoted fan of Wagners.
(*) The actual historic Brunhild was born in the Visigoth capital of Toledo - As in Toledo, Spain.
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