New gender neutral greeting just dropped

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For when you need a gender neutral greeting for your Peruvian/Irish/Polish friend
- Holy shit I just looked it up, apparently Belarus leads the world in potato consumption, doubling Irish consumption of potatoes per capita. That's wild. I apologize Belarus, I wasn't familiar with your game
  https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/potato-consumption-by-country
  
  Yeah, Belarussians are sometimes referred to as бульбаши (from бульба = one of the names for potato in Slavic languages and a cognate of English bulb) in Russian. Some people may or may not consider this a slur though so don't actually use it please.
  
  Funny. In Denmark "potato" is used as a slang term for white people.
  
  Potato skin is not even white lol
  
  Thanks for the info
  
  this that bad then? It was being passed around some lefty spaces, and some right russian-supporting ones a few years ago, like and I'll delete picture
  
  I am not Belarussian so it's not for me to judge whether this is offensive to the point of banning it but I would say, generally, that the Russian terms for the various ethnicities inhabiting the former Russian empire are best avoided. As the current use of a similar word for Ukrainians (which I'm not even going to type here) shows, things can quickly turn from "friendly banter" to full-on racist, nationalist, supremacist abuse. At the same time, some would argue that such terms were always about supremacy, and I recently find myself agreeing with this more and more.

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