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Your evening longread: A personal history of racism

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Personal history of racism

Robert Lopez writes about identity and racism in the US (contains adult language).

(New England Review, approx 26 mins reading time)

One does notice on this list of monosyllabic slurs garnered from Wikipedia’s page devoted to ethnic and racial epithets that there are quite a lot reserved for black people. Racists are a creative and prolific people. Most of the words are ridiculous and some do sound worse than others and at the same time there’s twigs and rocks so I don’t know where that leaves anyone.

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 8:08 PM

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 8:29 PM

    @Vladimir Macro: yup, coronavirus. It’s kind of a big deal, you may have heard of it.

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 8:06 PM

    I was amazed when I first saw racism in the British NHS in the late 70s. Only in the 90s did I personally experience it as an Irishman from an Englishman in Canada. It was in Fire and I later became chief and had the pleasure of firing him over a serious service issue.

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 8:34 PM

    @Niall Sheridan:
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    Jun 2nd 2020, 8:46 PM

    @Niall Sheridan: looks like karma came and gave him a big bite in the arse.

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 9:02 PM

    @Niall Sheridan: good man, Niall. Who’s the daft Mick now?

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    Jun 2nd 2020, 10:37 PM

    Fascism is spelled wrong in the picture.

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    Jun 3rd 2020, 6:33 AM

    @Robert O’H: ha hahaha, so it is.

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