Re: [Marxism] Re: Last word on whore and "farewell"

[Brian Shannon <brian_shannon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 3, 2006, at 3:26 PM, Fred Feldman wrote:

> I remember that a discussion started off in the Militant staff because
> someone used the term "niggardly" in an article.  A Black reader found
> this offensive because, well, the first two syllables sound exactly
> like
> "nigger."  The answer was to tell the reader sharply that the word was
> not racist and to show from the Oxford English Dictionary that it had
> old English origins.  And not only that, the Militant (this was a
> bit of
> Barnes hysteria added to the mix) began to use the word "niggardly" as
> much as possible (they were waging war at the time against political
> correctness -- the tendency of the oppressed who have become conscious
> and active to take oppressed at various expressions of the existing
> situation).

I had forgotten this. An interesting aspect of this is the anal
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