• Icalasari@fedia.io
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      7 months ago

      Huh, TIL. I honestly expected it to be related to a really old racist term and not to French

      Coonass, or Coon-ass, is a term for a person of Cajun ethnicity. Some view it as derogatory, however many Cajuns embrace the name. The term is believed to originate from the French word conasse, meaning a fool.

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      No you’re not missing anything, I think people are missing that detail and down voted out of ignorance