minus-squareEch@lemmy.catopolitics @lemmy.world•Congressman Brandon Gill tells mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani "Go back to the Third World" linkfedilinkarrow-up14·edit-29 hours agoThe term is pretty racist itself, since it was created to refer to tertiary countryies in the Cold War, but soon came to simultaneously suggest those countries were lesser. Calling a failing state “3rd world” just further perpetuates that. linkfedilink
minus-squareEch@lemmy.catoFediverse@lemmy.world•lemm.ee deadlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 day agoAlso, .ee is the TLD for Estonia. linkfedilink
The term is pretty racist itself, since it was created to refer to tertiary countryies in the Cold War, but soon came to simultaneously suggest those countries were lesser. Calling a failing state “3rd world” just further perpetuates that.