[Ads-l] a different take on "chain migration"

[Barretts Mail]

The same applies to the word “faggot”. It’s an in-group/out-group thing combined with reclamation. BB

> On 22 Feb 2018, at 16:38, paul johnson <paulzjoh at MTNHOME.COM> wrote:
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> I'm upset that on television blacks can call themselves or each other 'nigger'  but I can't say it unless I'm packing.  Curious, can they under that protocol, are they proscribed from calling whites 'honkys'
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> On 2/22/2018 6:29 PM, W Brewer wrote:
>> Wonder who pulled her chain.
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