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Why does your username have a ironic racist reference in it? Would we be open to someone using Adolph Hitler? What if they only quoted the funny parts of Mein Kapmph? Weird vibe, I don't like it
Out of character post: As LeninWeave explained, it's in Maoist Standard English. I actually wanted to use the name "grok" but it had been taken mere days before I created this account.
See my comment for an explanation.
This is actually a reasonable criticism. I enjoy this bit account, always gets a chuckle out of me, but referencing a violent white supremacist org seems unnecessary. The joke would work just as well with the name "grok", frankly.
It's usually referred to (nowadays) as "Maoist Standard English", any K sound is replaced with KKK and often S is replaced with SS or $. It doesn't glorify or endorse the KKK, it's meant as an insult.
As far as I know, it originated during the civil rights era from radical organizations like the Black Panther Party spelling "America" as "Amerika" (the German spelling, likening the US to nazi Germany), which then became "Amerikkka". It was apparently first used in the magazine "Black World" in 1970.
k isnt exclusively german, Amerika isnt even just the german spelling. Black Nationialist use k instead of c due to some pseudo-historical linkage of c to anglo-french imperialism.
If I understand correctly, that's the reason they say "Afrika" (because spelling it with a "c" is the colonial spelling), but all the sources I can find like "Amerika" to the German spelling.
Out of character post: As LeninWeave explained, it's in Maoist Standard English. I actually wanted to use the name "grok" but it had been taken mere days before I created this account.
Clearly taken by agents of Julius Malema and the EFF acting in furtherance of their goal of preventing you from raising awareness of their ongoing genocide of white South Africans.