[Ads-l] "coded"

[George Thompson]

Seems to me that the expression is "coded", but not racially, since it's
widely applied to all sorts of folks.

On a matter of old business -- if I recall, Wilson doesn't recall having
heard the term "*great* toe" -- my draft card carried the note "malformed
nails on both great toes"  (despite which handicap, I stood ready to serve).
Though this isn't exactly "hearing" it used.

GAT

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The only flaw in your reasoning is that the writer, a professor of history,
> sounds like a libtard himself.
>
> WOTY?
>
> JL
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
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> > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Jonathan Lighter <
> wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
> > >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > OK. In what way is "not exactly a saint" "racially coded"?
> >
> >
> > The writer is saying that "not exactly a saint" signals to those who can
> > hear the dog-whistle that "In that case, then, everything is all right
> and
> > up tight. The little bitch clearly *deserved* to get fucked over by the
> > police, given that she's not exactly a saint [read: "is a known
> criminal"].
> > She's just one more black thug who was asking for it. Why else are the
> > libtards trying to keep her juvenile record from being made available to
> > the media? And why hasn't she been arrested?"
> >
> > It's obvious.
> >
> > --
> > -Wilson
> > -----
> > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > -Mark Twain
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-- 
George A. Thompson
The Guy Who Still Looks Stuff Up in Books.
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998..

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