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Old 06-26-2020, 01:39 PM
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Originally Posted by DeanFL View Post
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I'm an 'older' white guy - German/English to the best of my knowledge.

If I was referred to as "cracker, goy, gringo, honky, Jerry, Kraut, paleface, pommy, whitey, Yank, Yankee I'd laugh out loud. really. and wait for a punch line...NOT give a punch.

THIS I DO find offensive>
"Uncle Tom NOUN
an insulting word for a black person who the speaker thinks shows too much respect for white people. This word is used especially by other black people."

WHAT???
I dated a fella for awhile whose mother told him Shicksa's were for practice. I was really surprised to hear what it meant.. I never did like his mother.
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