In These Times

To Whattheheck: You forgot to mention the "Fightin' Irish" of Notre Dame. To Dave from Canada: Some of my best friends are Jewish. They tell me that some forms of silliness and word games can lead to REAL problems.Sometimes even terminal ones. To Robin: The N-Word comes from the Latin "niger", meaning black. Bright cites Goddard et. al. that it evolved from a color to a deragatory (sic) term of denigration only in the last 200 years. Sic indeed. To all three: The offender has no right to tell the offendee not to be offended, all anecdotal or etymological evidence to …

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