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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