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Jokes about national heritage are fine - in fact, they're all over this sub.
https://lemmy.world/post/27559507
https://lemmy.world/post/27424779
https://lemmy.world/post/25877958
https://lemmy.world/post/22815483
But simply repeating popular bigotry that people earnestly believe is not a joke, and will not be treated as such.
The downvotes on the comment you answered to tell us a different story though. Ultimately the mods decide, but still
Woah. Ok. So, you have no idea what the term colonizer means, if you think any of those jokes is remotely close to what you posted earlier today.
Lord.
So, that's a no.
Coloniser after colonising the place becomes the land-"Lord". Hence the answer