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[Jonathan Lighter]

You'll have noticed that "Bad boys" would have done just as well....

JL

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 3:20 PM MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY CCDC
AVMC (USA) <0000099bab68be9a-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

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> > In any case, Edward Said's _Orientalism_ (1978) was the biggest nail in
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> > coffin and lexical re-orientation was de rigueur.
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> >  For people with degrees anyhow.
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> Oh, I have a degree - Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.  But
> the standard mnemonic for color codes on resistors was taught to us with a
> straight face ("Black boys rape our young girls but Violet gives willingly"
> -- black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, grey, white)),
> so whether or not "oriental" was offensive was completely off the radar.
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> (Wikipedia has a number of mnemonics which are not so racist or sexist,
> but are also much less memorable.)
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