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Re: a live response (from the girl who started it all)
--- Bob the dancing monkey <djohnson at snowplow_org>
wrote:
> Actually, Liesel, that _tends_ to be a phrase that a
> lot of people
> consider to be just slightly less inflamatory than
> 'call a nigger a
> nigger'. The etymology of the phrase has its origin
> in using 'spade' as a
> derogatory euphemism for a black person (or more
> often of a person whose
> ancestry is not solely black). It's entered into
> modern dialogue as of
> late, but there's still one hell of a lot of people
> who would be terribly
> offended by that.
>
> Not tryin' to lay the smackdown or anything - just
> so ya know.
wow. i've never heard of that. i really thought it
had something to do with a garden tool or card or to
call something at what it is -- no racial slur
involved. has anyone else heard of it in this
(drew's) way?
sigh.
my apologies, though used in my mis-sense there is no
need for one.
kind regards,
liesel
=====
"stories & cigarettes have ruined the lives of lesser girls"
p. yorn
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