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Re: Self-Use of Ethnic Insults (was: Re: Ebonic Christmas )

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Sunday, January 16, 2000, 21:14
Nik Taylor scripsit:

> Indeed, the only place I've ever heard "Hebe" is on the show All In The > Family, spoken by, of course, Archie Bunker.
Right. It is notable that Archie says "hebe" but not "kike", "jungle bunny" but not "nigger". ("Kike", BTW, probably the most offensive anti-Semtic term, is derived from "kaikl",the Yiddish word for "circle": Jews who could not write the Latin alphabet would use a circle to sign their names rather than an X, from the latter's similarity to a cross.)
> > We TABs will attempt to avoid these terms. > > TABs?
Temporarily Able-Bodied. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin