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

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.

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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