Or wanted other people to think that was the only reason for expressing environmental concerns, so that they wouldn’t think those issues were real and would ignore them.
Much more likely that it’s just a phonetic variant on “German”, just like “Japs” for “Japanese” or “Paki” for “Pakistani”.
Not at all inconsistent with what I wrote.
I got the impression, from British media, that “bint” is casually, rather than overtly, misogynist; that like “chick” or “babe”, it’s infantilizing, rather than explicitly derogatory. A distinction without a difference, perhaps.
I think that’s inconsistent with
which assumes that those pushing the term genuinely thought that a significant number of envirommentalists were actually Communists lying about their motives.
Some of the people listening to those doing the pushing may have believed them. I doubt the people who started the pushing believed it.
Yes, I’ve always assumed the Brits called the Germans ‘Jerrys’ because they called them ‘Jerry German’ and shortened it. I don’t have a cite. It’s just what I’ve assumed.
You’ll notice that in real estate shows on HGTV and the like, and in real estate listings, they are moving away from “master suite” or “master bedroom” in favor of “main suite/bedroom.”
Just today, on a different message board, a poster used the word “mongoloid” to mean “idiotic”. It’s taking longer than we thought, indeed.
(For those not up on the history of the term, “mongoloid” used to be a term for East Asians, and then morphed into a term for people with Down’s Syndrome, because some people apparently thought that the physical signs of Down’s Syndrome made people with it look Asian. And of course it was a small step from “has Down’s Syndrome” to “unintelligent in general”.)
Nope. There’s a great Asian market near me named “Kim’s Oriental Foods and Gifts.” The name makes me cringe, but I’m pretty sure the Korean couple that own it don’t want to hear about it from me.
By WW2, when chamber pots were not so common, I suspect that many British people would have said the same.
That usage still fits the “oriental for things, Asian for people” rule.
The fact that you found it cringeworthy makes me suspect that the aforementioned rule might have been appropriate 20 years ago, but less so today.
Back in the 80s, few would have batted an eye at oriental being used for all cases, so there is a clear direction, and it wouldn’t surprise me if the “o” word were to be deemed no longer appropriate anywhere.
It may also have derived from the old expression “suck eggs” which has nothing to do with oral sex.
The history of “idiot” isn’t great, either.
Though if we go way way back far enough I think it originally meant something like “thinking only of oneself”, which often would apply.
Strange, that’s almost verbatim to the scene in Fawlty Towers cited above.
IIRC, the n*****s were a subset of wogs, just a darker brown; and even that didn’t exclude (Ashkenazi) Jews and Latins, as in the saying “the wogs begin at Calais.”
Unless you’re trying to teach Grandma how to do this…… and if THAT’S the implication, ew. Just… ew.
It came from classical Greek meaning “private”, which then became a word meaning “private person” or “ignorant person”, which went into Latin with that meaning, which went into Old French and then into Middle English with the current meaning.
The Fairly OddParents has changed the name of a character called Poof.
Apparently nobody involved watched Arrested Development.
(Can’t edit but want to add that I think Daily Wire is a pretty right-wing site, that’s just a link that Google News offered to me.)
I’ve taken to using the term "southern engineering " in place of ******-rigging. However I used it around a good old boy who was doing some repair work for me, and apparently that registered as "she’s ok with semi-racist terminology " I think I need to switch to redneck engineering