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re: The Outrage Brigade is after The Five's Bob Beckel

Posted on 7/14/14 at 10:29 pm to
Posted by HailHailtoMichigan!
Mission Viejo, CA
Member since Mar 2012
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Posted on 7/14/14 at 10:29 pm to
Why is the word chinamen considered a slur?
Posted by C
Houston
Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 7/14/14 at 10:43 pm to
Englishman just wouldn't understand
Posted by NHTIGER
Central New Hampshire
Member since Nov 2003
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Posted on 7/15/14 at 2:50 am to
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Why is the word chinamen considered a slur?



Beckel is 3 days younger than I am and I can say that growing up in NH in the 50's, everyone used the word "Chinaman" as singular and used "Chinese" for plural. It wasn't meant as a slur, it was common usage back then.
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