"Nigga" untrademarkable?

[Laurence Horn]

>I think it was Bob Dole who started this small-d democrat.

Even if it was (as it appears) around before him, Dole did a lot for
the usage, especially in his hatchet service as vice-presidential
candidate when he railed about WWII, the Korean War, and the Vietnam
conflict as "Democrat wars".

L

>On 3/18/06, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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>>  Right-wing politicians and hate-radio ranters seem to assume
>>  that using "Democrat" as an adjective or attributive noun
>>  ("the Democrat scheme," "Democrat candidates," even "the
>>  Democrat Party") will be deemed especially derogatory
>>  (thence preferred to "Democratic").  The same, of course, is
>>  the case with the word "Jew" ("Jew merchants," "the
>>  international Jew conspiracy").
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