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[Mark Mandel]

Except that it doesn't specify *b*lack, as opposed to *b*rown.

Mark Mandel

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 4:47 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> You'll have noticed that "Bad boys" would have done just as well....
>
> JL
>
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 3:20 PM MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC
> AVMC (USA) <0000099bab68be9a-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
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> > >
> > > In any case, Edward Said's _Orientalism_ (1978) was the biggest nail in
> > the
> > > coffin and lexical re-orientation was de rigueur.
> > >
> > >  For people with degrees anyhow.
> > >
> >
> > Oh, I have a degree - Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.  But
> > the standard mnemonic for color codes on resistors was taught to us with
> a
> > straight face ("Black boys rape our young girls but Violet gives
> willingly"
> > -- black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, grey, white)),
> > so whether or not "oriental" was offensive was completely off the radar.
> >
> > (Wikipedia has a number of mnemonics which are not so racist or sexist,
> > but are also much less memorable.)
> >
> >
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