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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:02:59 -0400
Subject: Re: Aggressive language on python-list
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On 17 October 2012 19:53, Dwight Hutto <dwightdhu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> To take it a little further, what if I said I got gypped. I think it
> goes to gypsy's. Was it racist?

"Racist" is a word with competing definitions, and intent is a factor
in some of them ... but yes, many people are offended by such use of
the word "gyp", just as they would be by similar use of "jew" as a
verb.

 -[]z.