[Ads-l] sexist "crazy"

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 6:44 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Cf. the familiarity of the corresponding phrases "crazy bastard" and "crazy
> motherfucker."
>

"Crazy nigger" - used not only in the 'hood, but also quite well described
in anthropological and sociological writings from at least 1878, is another
member of that set.


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-Wilson
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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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