It has come to my attention that some comments made on my July 14th entry may have been misinterpreted. “Chins” was referring to the Ch’in Dynasty (or “Qin” in pinyin), not the racial slur “chink.” Death by a thousand cuts, otherwise known as “slow-slicing” was a torture method invented in China and used during the “Imperial Period.” The Qin Dynasty is generally recognized as the first dynasty of this Imperial Period.
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Friday morning we shut down the house and headed to LAX. Despite a disorganized boarding queueing procedure from Air Canada, the actual flight was not full and we ended up with an empty seat next to us. However, the flight was delayed for about a half hour due to a “maintenance procedure” that prolonged our […]
I posted a bit ago about how we’d gone back to Shaw’s Cove for the first time in five years. Part of that was because we’d visited La Jolla Shores on one day down and back trips in 2020 and 2021. Then no swimming at all anywhere in 2022 or 2023. So while it had […]
A month ago we returned to Shaw’s Cove after a 5 year drought to find out that we’d been snorkeling to the wrong side all along. A few coves south lay the Laguna Beach Marine Life Refuge, where most of the juvenile leopard sharks learn to drive. Last time all our friends cancelled on us, […]
Erik Cartman would love this…
I’ve never even heard of most of these…
I should have known……
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs
My econ prof. “Frank” Chang used to get great fun out of pronouncing his name in the manner he was tuaght as a child ” My name Chin’k–don’t call me chink!” He considered it great fun because the western ears could not hear any difference. Soooo–who is the uneducated one? (he is respected in econ both here and in China)
I actually can’t say who was offended … or if that was the cause. Hard to explain – but I thought that “chins” reference was the most likely culprit. Thought I would just clear it up completely because who knows who ELSE might read it and think the same thing…
You should start a slur-a-pedia so that every racist egoist can tell us just what we cannot say. That would be “mighty white” of you-“oops- I did it again!”. This whole “racist” thing is begining to smell fishy (triple points on that one).