New racist etymology

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Mar 16 06:24:48 UTC 2013


On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Jocelyn Limpert
<jocelyn.limpert at gmail.com> wrote:
> designations, such as "Japanese American," are not hyphenated [anymore].

Why not, I wonder? Because Google doesn't even distinguish between
"Japanese-American" and "japanese american," so why even bother with
capitalization?

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