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In Reply to: RE: Sigh . . . posted by JoshT on August 31, 2014 at 13:25:19
and I appreciate your answer. I understand Gook, Chink, Kike, Wop,Polak etc., etc. but I never knew why Chinaman shouold be offensive. Guess it's just because some think it is.
When I was at Umass Amherst we were the Redmen. Now changed ro Minutemen. I always thought of such terms as more of an honor than an insult. Wrong again, I guess!
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
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Talk about Orwellian craziness. How did you survive? :-)
When my brother went there in the mid-1980s the town council voted to fly the UN flag instead of the Stars and Stripes in the town park. And I could go on and on. Whatever.
Not sure if it's still like that, or was like that when you were there.
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Not QUITE as crazy then. Early vestiges were just beginning to appear
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
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