Darren New wrote:
> Tom Austin wrote:
>> While I can see how this could be a racially charged statement, it
>> could easily apply to ANY group of people and not be racially charged.
>
> That's OK. We had politicians getting kicked out because they said
> they'd have to be niggardly with the budget, and the ignorant black
> coworkers didn't know what the word meant.
>
I do remember way back in high school physics that we discussed the term
jerry-rig. Our teacher reasoned that 'jerry' was a racial slur and
shouldn't be used. So he suggested that 'billy-rig' was a better term -
referring to West Virginia hill billys. Since we were in Virginia, it
was a better term than 'jerry-rig'
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