This when they bring up that shit you need an encyclopedia to figure out. I am still haunted by trying to figure out what the hell "macaca" meant. - ThreadSky

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bakerdphd.bsky.social • 5 days ago

This when they bring up that shit you need an encyclopedia to figure out. I am still haunted by trying to figure out what the hell "macaca" meant.

Reposted from Tank Bearclaw

Mamdani winning is going to revitalize slurs we haven’t seen since the 18th century

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ashonolamina.bsky.social•4 days ago

Has that one seen daylight since George Allen in 2006?

bakerdphd.bsky.social•4 days ago

I don't know

ashonolamina.bsky.social•4 days ago

It caused a big stink in 2006 - despite what he and his mama said at the time he prolly got it from her. She was Sephardi/French Tunisian so both sides of her family would plausibly have heard/used this old Romance language slur (predictably it means “monkey” 🙄)

bakerdphd.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yea I'm from Virginia so unfortunately I eventually learned all of this

ashonolamina.bsky.social•4 days ago

It was wild when it happened, but looking back on how everyone was unanimously like you can’t say that is even more surreal given *gestures broadly to the nation*