traveler = 'Communist sympathizer'

[Jonathan Lighter]

In that case,"Traveller" would be capitalized, unless the writer were a
racist willfully trumpeting his/her racism.

But perhaps she/he neglected to capitalize it so as to hide his/her racism,
thus making her/his racist message more insidiously palatable to the so
easily malleable public.

By raising the issue, however, you become subtly complicitous in his/her
project.

JL

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> At 8:12 AM -0500 3/2/11, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >By re-analysis of "fellow traveler":
> >
> >2009 _IMDb_ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052600/usercomments?filter=hate:
> >A Great Film For A Traveler, Otherwise Just a Curiosity ...  If you read
> who
> >the reviewers are and where they live it gives you a better clue on who
> >would totally love this film, I have to think they are travelers, it's all
> >good, but I'm just saying....it was good, but not great. Then again, I'm
> not
> >a traveler (I joined the military to help protect the USA from Soviet
> >aggressions in the 1980's) so take that into account.
> >
> So it doesn't mean that the film was designed to appeal to that
> notoriously well-heeled demographic of Marxist gypsies?
>
> LH
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