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Re: Summarizing Today's Media Absurdity
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The Horny Goat
Nov 12, 2021, 10:15:24 PM11/12/21
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On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 17:53:00 -0500, Ubiquitous <web...@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....
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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