"Nigga" untrademarkable?

[David Bergdahl]

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

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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