Talk:Rhineland Bastard

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One cannot talk about "the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute", since there were many institutes, each called "Kaiser Wilhelm Institute" for such-and-such a branch of science. (Today they are called "Max Planck Institutes".)

Sebastjan


German Nazis sterilized the mulattos in the Rhineland. The hobgoblin 20:25, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] The N-Word

Der Begriff Neger bezeichnet Menschen mit dunkler Hautfarbe und bestimmten anderen phänotypischen Merkmalen und wird heute meist abwertend verwendet. Er gilt als rassistisch[1] konnotiert[2].

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neger

Translation: The term Neger describes humans of dark skin color and certain other phenotypic traits and is today mostly used in a disparaging way. It is considered racist.

The word "Neger" once was a neutral term, just like the English one, but is no longer. Negro always was a neutral term and still is, and was used by people who surely did not hate blacks (MLK, for example). I am just trying to transmit the message that the term is more insulting than the article portrays it to be. 80.128.236.141 00:15, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it was once a neutral term. Nigger was never a neutral term. It was always slang. Neger links to Negro in interwiki, not to Nigger. There are also other usages of the word Neger with this etymology. It was even a surname [1]. There is no reason to believe that the use of the term Neger in the early 20th century was intentionally derogatory. Your translation is a distortion. Paul B 08:39, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
In Mark Twain's time, "nigger" was neutral.  Randall Bart   Talk  21:35, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
It wasn't always an insult, true. But it was always slang. Paul B 21:37, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cool!

Seriously that is awesome!

[edit] Hans Massaquoi

I have deleted the follow comment and replaced it with more accurate and sourced material: "Hans Massaquoi, a German-Liberian from Hamburg, asserted in his autobiography that mixed raced Rhinelanders were rounded up and exterminated in Nazi death camps." The statement is not inaccurate in itself. Massaquoi does say this on p.2 of his book, but the information is simply false, and he even acknowledges that it is something he "learned" long after the war. His own experience as recorded in the book itself clearly contradicts the claim that black peole were targeted in that way. Paul B 11:38, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Disputed?

A disputed tag was added with the bizarre comment "yeah, it was Jews too. need citations for facts". What was "Jews too"? I have removed the tag on the grounds that it is nonsensical. There is no dispute at all about what the term Rhineland Bastard referred to. Paul B 10:12, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

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Why didnt they just gas them or beat their heads in with mallets? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.107.180.155 (talk) 12:58, 6 January 2008 (UTC)