præmieperker

Danish

Etymology

præmie (“prize”) +‎ perker (“sand nigger”), where præmie is used by analogy with e.g. præmiehund (“prize dog”), præmietyr (“prize bull”).

Noun

præmieperker

1. (slang, offensive) a person of Middle Eastern descent who is presented as particularly talented or accomplished because of their ethnicity, rather than their real merits.
   • 2003, Bashy Quraishy, Dansk identitet, set med brune øjne: 15 samtaler:

     Jeg synes hun er en præmieperker, fordi det er blevet fremhævet så meget, at hun er indvandrer. Jeg har aldrig hørt nogen udtale sig om, at hun er en dygtig politiker.

     I think she is a prize sand nigger, because the fact that she is an immigrant has been emphasized so much. I have never heard anyone say that she was a skilled politician.

   • 2014, Louise Østergaard, Ord, Art People, →ISBN:

     De digte er kun interessante nu, fordi rygtet om dig har bredt sig som en steppebrand i litterære kredse: præmieperkeren, Forfatterskolens fund, den atten​årige ghettoknægt med det enorme talent og potentiale.

     Those poems are only interesting now, because the rumour of you has spread like a steppe fire in the literary circles: the prize sand nigger, the discovery of the author's school, the 18-year-old ghetto boy with the enormous talent and potential.

   • 2016, René Fredensborg, Hønsehunde, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:

     Det vakte også harme blandt de politisk korrekte, da jeg tillod mig at skrive, at Outlandish var en flok præmieperkere, ...

     It also incited outrage among the politically correct, when I had the audacity to write that Outlandish were a bunch of prize sand niggers, ...