What is your opinion on this Dutch black Pete fella?

Gotta love some blackface though

Negerlands

kek. Whites look better as blacks than blacks do themselves! Fucking top kek!

>Zwarte Piet (pronounced [ˈzʋɑrtə ˈpit]; English: Black Pete or Black Peter, Luxembourgish: Schwaarze Péiter, Indonesian: Pit Hitam) is the companion of Saint Nicholas (Dutch: Sinterklaas, Luxembourgish: Kleeschen, Indonesian: Sinterklas) in the folklore of the Low Countries.
>The character first appeared in an 1850 book by Amsterdam schoolteacher Jan Schenkman
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Isn't the tradition based on one covered in chimney soot, not making fun of niggers? If so, fuck niggers. Not everything is about them.

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You read my mind.

Shit I got pwnd hard

>hgw randstad mutts je cultuur komen aanvallen

The original legend is about a white Christian holy man who saves a couple of child slaves, after which they choose to work as his companions. The story is factually about anti racism and how some people go against everything everyone tells them and do the right thing.

The anti Zwarte Piet debacle is so rediculous... Black people get triggered because they don't know the story fully. It would be like protesting the usage of the cross as a symbol for Christianity, even though it's an instrument of torture. Yet you see nobody doing that, because it's tied to other values and has a very different meaning than to promote torture.

The most stupid thing though is that every child sees Zwarte Piet and Sinrerklaas as a Child friend, like all children adore him and the whole story. Now here come the fucking millennials who don't know what they stand for and just yell things, which the media then blows out of proportion.

>how to tell who is a centrist in holland
>"it's soot! soootttt!!!"
>MUH SMINK

yeah nah fuck off

Compare to a real zwarte piet

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Kek

Saw that yesterday, made me laugh

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Nothing Jewish about the name schenkman 52%'er

mah nigga

Its based off a Moor. Nicolas of Myra didn't like slavery and frequently bought the freedom of slaves, especially children. He freed a Moor who in his gratitude asked to serve him. To be able to serve a bishop like that, especially while likely being illiterate was quite something.

The myth also has a lot of paganism interwoven, like how Nicolas rides wodan's white horse. Part of the reason he's black is because of the traditional black-white dynamic.
Nicolas also forced a demon into his service, krampus. Krampus punishes the bad children while Piet rewards the good children. This country is calvanist/reformed and honouring a catholic saint/pagan holiday is already quite something, people didn't want people running around pretending to be demons, so they quietly dropped krampus and passed the task of punishing children to Piet as well.

Its really reverence of a Moor, who used to also wear golden earrings since Nicolas was the saint of sailors as well as children, merchants, etc.they've also been steadily toning down the aspects of Piet punishing bad children.

There is literally nothing racist about it. People just see black face paint and just fucking assume its based on american minstril shows. Iran has a similar tradition, the former dutch colonies celebrate saint Nicolas and whiten their skin when dressed up as him, etc. The only people that call it racist are people without a god damn clue about what any of it means.
And fuck our spineless government of caving into these niggers and leftists

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