# "That was white of you" origin? non-racial?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 26, 2013, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-was-white-of-you-origin-non-racial/667211 "2013-08-26T16:30:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![md2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@md2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md2000)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2013, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-was-white-of-you-origin-non-racial/667211/81 "2013-08-30T02:16:42Z")

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“A night out with the boys” is probably about as common an expression as “a might out with the guys”.

Besides, in the white/black context, “boy” was an insult that “girl” could not really equal. Calling an adult man “boy” to his face was a very calculated insult to manhood.

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