floofloof@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoIllinois prosecutors weigh hate crime charges after lesbian attacked at McDonald'swww.cbsnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square46fedilinkarrow-up1490arrow-down16cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1484arrow-down1external-linkIllinois prosecutors weigh hate crime charges after lesbian attacked at McDonald'swww.cbsnews.comfloofloof@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square46fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·1 year ago A group of strangers started harassing her and using anti-gay slurs as she left the restroom Sounds open-and-shut hate crime to me.
minus-squareFistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down5·edit-21 year agoNow convince a jury of stupid, ignorant yanks of that. Edit: I live in Australia To us, you’re all “Seppos” Septic-Tank>Yank
minus-squareDrusas@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down3·1 year agoYanks are from the northeast, which is generally fiscally conservative and socially progressive.
minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down3·edit-21 year agoThere are no Yanks in Illinois. That’s the Midwest. We’re in the Northeast (though ignorance is not regional).
minus-squareFistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down1·1 year agoI live in Australia, I was unaware of your regional differences with that word! We use it to describe all of you
minus-squareHobbes_Dent@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down2·1 year agoCanada too. Y’all down there in Red White and Stupid land can complain all you want about “yanks” meaning all the US considering you’ve co-opted “American” to mean the same thing.
minus-squareSreudianFlip@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·1 year agoThey don’t understand that we mean it like “Yanqui”, as in, imperialists.
minus-squarebarneypiccolo@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoYeah, why is there even a question about this?
Sounds open-and-shut hate crime to me.
Now convince a jury of stupid, ignorant yanks of that.
Edit: I live in Australia
To us, you’re all “Seppos”
Septic-Tank>Yank
Yanks are from the northeast, which is generally fiscally conservative and socially progressive.
There are no Yanks in Illinois. That’s the Midwest. We’re in the Northeast (though ignorance is not regional).
I live in Australia,
I was unaware of your regional differences with that word!
We use it to describe all of you
Canada too.
Y’all down there in Red White and Stupid land can complain all you want about “yanks” meaning all the US considering you’ve co-opted “American” to mean the same thing.
They don’t understand that we mean it like “Yanqui”, as in, imperialists.
Yeah, why is there even a question about this?