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If Eskimo Pies are out, I wonder about Girl Scout Cookies. Are those out until they make Boy Scout Cookies too?
And they don't use real Eskimos anyhow. Sad.
As for insults... they have no power if they aren't responded to. I have a fabulous list of insults, but nobody uses them anymore because nobody reacts to be calling a kike, or hook, or hebey*, nor any other racial insults.
I think the only remaining insult I hear is the n-word - and that doesn't count because it's racially insulting in BOTH directions. Obviously, when non-blacks use it, it's horribly insensitive.
But when I hear blacks use it on each other, I wonder how bad can it be that no one else can use it? How can it be both friendly and a deadly insult at the same time?
That's probably a word that should be removed until we can use it in a context as the word "gay" was at the beginning of the last century, i.e., it has one friendly meaning** and no one will ever assign any other meaning to it. Sadly, I dread that day will not be soon.
*I feel no shame quoting these; they're not used anymore that I know of, and I'm Jewish.
**That day might never come, but one can hope. I mean, "Yankee" is no longer a blood insult either.
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