Trone in trouble over racial slur

[Anonymous]

This is 100% bad. If the N word is 100 on the "do not say" list then J....boo is a solid 90. I am in my 60s and this was a somewhat more polite way of saying the N word in the 70s and 80s. I haven't heard it used in decades. I have heard all the slurs from growing up in PG County but had never heard the word macaca used as a racial slur when it ended George Allen's career. That was not a slip of the tongue - Trone has used that word before. He is doneski.

[Anonymous]

I still won't vote for Hogan and risk a republican majority that could further endanger the country and specifically women's rights.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll bet if you polled 100 random people, maybe 1 has ever heard of this racial slur.

Agree 100%

Except, if you polled 100 black random black people, 100 would believe that it was a racial slur.

[Anonymous]

Native Jersey girl here, and this is a well known racial slur from when I was young. Prob more of my parents generation. But not obscure for sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I still won't vote for Hogan and risk a republican majority that could further endanger the country and specifically women's rights.

It's be ironic if blue maryland tips the balance in the senate resulting in a national abortion ban

[Anonymous]

I have never heard this word before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is 100% bad. If the N word is 100 on the "do not say" list then J....boo is a solid 90. I am in my 60s and this was a somewhat more polite way of saying the N word in the 70s and 80s. I haven't heard it used in decades. I have heard all the slurs from growing up in PG County but had never heard the word macaca used as a racial slur when it ended George Allen's career. That was not a slip of the tongue - Trone has used that word before. He is doneski.

I grew up in NY and now live in NoVA and I still don't know what the word is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is 100% bad. If the N word is 100 on the "do not say" list then J....boo is a solid 90. I am in my 60s and this was a somewhat more polite way of saying the N word in the 70s and 80s. I haven't heard it used in decades. I have heard all the slurs from growing up in PG County but had never heard the word macaca used as a racial slur when it ended George Allen's career. That was not a slip of the tongue - Trone has used that word before. He is doneski.

I think the fact that George Allen was directing it at a person is a salient difference here. In context, that word was clearly referring to a person and thus more logically a slur. The slur here doesn't make any sense. The word bugaboo has meaning there, but the slur doesn't. That slip may indicate that he says the word on a regular basis, but it's a less obvious case.

I've got no dog in this fight, I'm not voting for him either way, but I do think it's different than George Allen.

[Anonymous]

The article didn’t repeat the slur right?
I don’t even know what word is being discussed here so I would guess I’ve either never heard it or heard it so infrequently that it didn’t register. I’m a 50 year old white women but not from the mid Atlantic area.
Is it possible he just misspoke? I’m finding that as I hit middle age, my tongue sometimes stumbles and just subs in different syllables. I’ve become very sympathetic to bidens malaproprisms. But since I don’t know the word I don’t know how likely this is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The article didn’t repeat the slur right?
I don’t even know what word is being discussed here so I would guess I’ve either never heard it or heard it so infrequently that it didn’t register. I’m a 50 year old white women but not from the mid Atlantic area.
Is it possible he just misspoke? I’m finding that as I hit middle age, my tongue sometimes stumbles and just subs in different syllables. I’ve become very sympathetic to bidens malaproprisms. But since I don’t know the word I don’t know how likely this is.

It did repeat the slur.

[Anonymous]

Oh. I see it now in the block quote. I really couldn’t say whether I’ve ever heard this word. I think if I heard someone say it, I’d think they’d made it up on the spot and would have to infer meaning from context. Just seems to me that he misspoke.

I’m impressed that Alsobrooks had no comment on it. I think that’s classy of her to not make a thing out of what was clearly a verbal stumble.

I have no real opinion of Trone. He seems better than Hogan which I guess will be the question posed.

[Anonymous]

I haven't heard this slur before. But, then again, it's never been directed at me.

I grew up in California, spent 10 years in NYC, and now 15 years in DC...and its not a term that is used.

Is this a mid-Atlantic regional slur? Southern?

-White guy

[Anonymous]

Mid atlantic white girl here who has never heard the term before. Definitely not saying that doesn't mean it's a slur, and I have no idea if Trone meant it or not, but... it's a weird one use.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The article didn’t repeat the slur right?
I don’t even know what word is being discussed here so I would guess I’ve either never heard it or heard it so infrequently that it didn’t register. I’m a 50 year old white women but not from the mid Atlantic area.
Is it possible he just misspoke? I’m finding that as I hit middle age, my tongue sometimes stumbles and just subs in different syllables. I’ve become very sympathetic to bidens malaproprisms. But since I don’t know the word I don’t know how likely this is.

You don’t know the word? Half the people responding here do not know the word??

Is your point: “it is not a racial slur” - since you don’t know it??

Well OK then; if it’s not a slur then you obviously have no issue with spelling it out, from a search of it (‘cause every search engine seems to know it)

jigaboo /jĭg′ə-boo͞″/
noun
Used as a disparaging term for a black person.
A negro, especially an African-American; -- an offensive term usually intended as an ethnic slur.
Similar: I DELETED THESE
A black person.”


I believe you all knew this was a slur. I believe you all are LYING to try to run cover for Trone.

And I believe he is lying too. He is a liar and a racist.

[Anonymous]

I've never, ever heard this word (a) before or (b) as a slur. Much ado about nothing.