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Re: Linguistic Racism ? Dark Design
Loki Harfagr (loki@DarkDesign.free.fr) 2005/09/08 12:46

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Subject: Re: Linguistic Racism ?
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 20:46:27 +0200
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>  Jesse Jackson and others have expressed  that using the term "refugees"
>  to describe evacuees is "linguistic racism."

Another overmisabuse (sic) of "politikkkally korrekt" lingo ?

>  They have argued that "refugee" somehow implies that the displaced storm
>  victims, many of whom are black,
>   are second-class citizens - or not even Americans.

  Ah, then does he mean that they aren't even red-indians ?
  Er. native-americans, or he just tried to spell
"persons having a backlit-digital-watches and wifi-personal-assistants
deficit" ?-)


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