I was asking an AI for suggestions for how to refer to the impending sovereignty threat that is the dying empire of American plutocracy.
Yank and Yankee feel completely gutless to me but Seppos stuck out as both crude (referring to septic tank which rhymes with yank) and appropriate (being full of excrement). The origin is supposedly Australian.
I’m mostly just checking it doesn’t have a racial element or some other dark history that Deepseek didn’t mention.
No, I have never used heard it in casual conversation , only on the internet and quite rarely
Definitely used in Australia for decades. It is the third iteration rhyming slang yank->septic tank->seppo.
Yes, it does actually get used, and yes, it has the connotations that your search turned up.
It’s honestly only a mildly derogatory term, to be honest, despite its literal meaning. Plenty of Aussies will use it with no ill intent.
Plenty of Aussies will use it with no ill intent
We’re pretty famous for using strong language with no ill intent.
Do people say it?
I’ve only said and seen it online, but it’s definitely in our vocabulary. Similar to some other slang like ‘crikey’ and ‘strewth’, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a regional or generational factor.
The origin is supposedly Australian.
I’m not an expert, Wikipedia might have the answer, but like Greyghoster said it’s rhyming slang, which is usually associated with Cockney culture in Britain, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it started there first.
I’m mostly just checking it doesn’t have a racial element or some other dark history that Deepseek didn’t mention.
No, in fact historical anti-American sentiment had an element of anti-racism at times. Now, Australia has an atrocious history of oppressing indigenous people (some towns even had segregation in living memory[1]) but there have been anti-American riots in the UK, Australia and New Zealand during WWII partially caused by US military segregation: see Battle of Brisbane.
I was asking an AI for suggestions for how to refer to the impending sovereignty threat that is the dying empire of American plutocracy.
I know some corners of the internet have been calling it the Burgerreich since at least BLM. ‘Burger’ has been used online a lot as a term for USA citizens, although I’m not sure if that was a reaction to the Islamophobic (etc.) slur ‘kebab’ which became popular online almost 20 years ago.
Apparently burger may have some other uses as a slur, so would maybe caution using it
https://slurs.info/slur/burger
Then again this site also claims this:
The word Imperialist is a racial slur that has been used historically to degrade and dehumanize americans. The word is still used by some people for this purpose, and it is seen as offensive and hurtful to americans. If you are unsure about whether or not it is appropriate to use the word Imperialist, it is best to err on the side of caution and avoid using it in any situation.
Yeah, that site looks terrible, ‘imperialism’ isn’t the only doozy, but the seppo-centrism on that page is ridiculous and ignorant.
Don’t you dare make fun of considering “imperialist” a slur.
Did it ever occur to you about how hard it must have been for those CIA hitsquads to murder innocent foreigners who liked socialism more than was good for them?
What gets me is how they called it a racial slur.
I’ve never heard it outside of reddit.
