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From: Loki Harfagr <loki@DarkDesign.free.fr>
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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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