• bassomitron@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      It’s actually been an increasingly common slang over the last year or so. Think the popularity of it picked up after they started sending troops to Ukraine.

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      8 months ago

      Around 1950 or so. It’s probably considered a slur, though, only slightly better than “gooks”.