Dr. Laura and the N-word; etymology and the N-word

[Laurence Horn]

At 3:16 PM -0400 8/13/10, Rick Barr wrote:
>Something else that has frothed on the blogosphere is Dr. Laura's use of the
>NAACP as a verb: "Don't NAACP me!" (It comes up about halfway through the
>clip Jonathan provided.) All the first ghits point to Dr. Laura.
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>-- Rick

Especially in the form in which she pronounces it on that tape,
something like "Don't double-N ACP me".

LH

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>On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>  > [C]ommenters move quickly into antisemitic mode
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>>  That was what Richard Pryor was getting in his ca.1970 parody of a
>>  roundtable on race.
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>>  Black militant [excitedly interrupting current speaker]:
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>>  "Everybody's always talking about the Jews... !!!"
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>>  Moderator [interrupting militant in his turn], sternly:
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>>  "Excuse me! No one here has said anything about the Jews."
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>>  Black militant [still totally freaking]:
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>>  "You will!!! You will!!!
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