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Re: Summarizing Today's Media Absurdity

From The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
Newsgroups alt.syntax.tactical
Subject Re: Summarizing Today's Media Absurdity
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Date 2021-11-12 19:15 -0800

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On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 17:53:00 -0500, Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net>
wrote:

>>> Coincidentally I was watching the "primaquine/chloraquine" episode of 
>>> M*A*S*H this morning and they referred to African-Americans as "the 
>>> negroes," which would have been about the same time period as the Negro 
>>> Baseball Leagues.
>>
>>Is 'Negro' inherently any more pejorative than, say, 'Cajun'?...
>
>"Whataboutism?" noted. Get back to us when you have a real argument to make.

In the Korean War era (which I assume everybody knows is when
*M*A*S*H* was set) "negro" would have been the preferred term and
"black" would have been offensive....

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