racial slur database

[Benjamin Lukoff]

> From:    Barbara Need <bhneed at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Ragtime and coded slurs in the Chicago Tribune
>
> And there was an article on today's front page about "coded slurs".
> i..e., ways of being offensive without (!?) being obvious. The
> article referenced _reggin" (read it backwards), the reference by Fox
> to Michelle Obama as Barack's "baby mama" (discussed here) and a
> situation in which an Indian was attacked by a co-worker with
> learning disabilities because the latter believed the former was
> Osama bin Laden's brother! (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/
> nationworld/chi-race-codewordsjun30,0,7093296.story<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-race-codewordsjun30,0,7093296.story>
> )
>
>
Fascinating, and it revealed to me the existence of the Racial Slur Database
(http://www.rsdb.org/).  But.... are whites really called "bird sh*t" and
"bird turd"?

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