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Isn’t -stan basically a racist trope?
is it a racist trope to apply the proto indo Iranian suffix for "place/land of" to words
To me, it means "place X is bad just like countries whose names end in -stan" and is regularly used by chuds in this way.
The only instance I think I've ever seen of self identified racists coining a new term for a place using the "stan" suffix is "Kekistan" which is their tongue in cheek name for a fictional country embodying the ideals of white nationalism. So not exactly used by them in a derogatory sense, quite the opposite
You've never seen the term "Londonistan" just as an example?
There was also Kid Rock selling a shirt in 2016 with "Dumbfuckistan" as the name for the blue states in the presidential election. I personally would avoid using that suffix in derogatory contexts because of the not-so-subtle Islamophobic connotation
Yup, I've seen the Londonistan thing used a lot, and they've mentioned the -stan thing in regards to Germany too.
No I hadn't heard of Londonistan