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[Andy Bach]

>Except that it doesn't specify *b*lack, as opposed to *b*rown.

Sort of a weak response, as neither does "rape", "our", "young", "girls",
"but", "gives" or "willingly".  Yes, black and brown both share the initial
B, still it's inarguably a terrible phrase and indefensible.  I bet even EE
folks could remember black comes before brown, given the rest.  I
understand that, at first, you were merely relaying the information, but
now you seem to be attempting to justify it's validity.

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 4:25 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Except that it doesn't specify *b*lack, as opposed to *b*rown.
>
> Mark Mandel
>
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2019, 4:47 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > 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:
> >
> > > CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED
> > >
> > > >
> > > > In any case, Edward Said's _Orientalism_ (1978) was the biggest nail
> in
> > > the
> > > > coffin and lexical re-orientation was de rigueur.
> > > >
> > > >  For people with degrees anyhow.
> > > >
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > (Wikipedia has a number of mnemonics which are not so racist or sexist,
> > > but are also much less memorable.)
> > >
> > >
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