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Re: WTB Train Parts
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 2 Aug 1999 12:45:36 GMT
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cjc@newsguy.com/avoidspam/
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Mike Stanley <cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com> wrote:
> I was born and grew for a while in California and grew up to adulthood
> in Tennessee. I've heard people say "mighty white of you" in both
> ways you describe.
<snip>
> Don't know that I've ever heard it used IRL in a way that would imply
> anything other than scorn for the person being called "mighty white".
Just noticed what might appear to be a contradiction here. Not
really, if memory serves. The few times I have heard "might white"
mean something that could be interpreted as racist towards non-whites,
it was also clearly meant as an insult to the white person as well -
if that makes sense.
In MY head, though, I guess I hear it more as a slur against the
person who is being called might white, mainly for the reasons Mike P.
brought out.
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| (...) I was born and grew for a while in California and grew up to adulthood in Tennessee. I've heard people say "mighty white of you" in both ways you describe. Any kind of attempt to assign a meaning to a phrase like that is doomed without (...) (26 years ago, 2-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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