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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s a little like the N word. White people don’t get to use it, even to refer to themselves. 
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Oh please, get the F’ over yourself, you sanctimonious moron.

It was a term originally applied TO [i]white people[/i] who just got off a boat from Ireland. In the 1830’s.

Now according to you, white people can’t use it even to refer to themselves?

Well, the reference to “fresh off the boat” that was targeted at the Irish has long been replaced by other recent immigrants.  And you and your generation are not the one to have felt the sting of that derogatory term.

About 30 years ago in CA, an Italian American wanted to put “WOP” on their license plates.  WOP meant “without papers”  and was a derogatory term for Italian immigrants. The older Italian American immigrants who remembered the sting of racism, objected to having this put on license plates while the younger Italian American generation never experienced it so wanted to claim it as a badge of pride of their heritage. Insensitivity is nothing to be proud of.

Curious- how does one bestow themselves with such arrogance as you? How do you do it? [/quote][/quote]

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