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- From: albrigh@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (thomas g albright)
- Subject: Re: Liberty (was something relevant about CO-2 long ago...)
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:17:23 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.153240.17210@panix.com> mara@panix.com (Mara Chibnik)
- writes:
- [re: the word "denigrate"]
- >The truly PC reaction is, of course, to strike it from your
- >vocabulary. I'm not really convinced that it's the effective
- >opposite of saying something like, "That's mighty white of you,"
- >but if the word is going to land badly on someone's ears for that
- >reason, I can generally find an elegant workaround.
-
- This reminds me of the scene in "Malcolm X" when Malcolm is looking up
- "black" and "white" in the dictionary and finds that all the associations with
- "black" are evil, and that all the associations with "white" are pure.
-
- -Tom Albright
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