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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On Saturday we woke up dark and early before the sun in order to catch our Uber to LAX before 7am. We were flying southwest and had checked in the day before right at the buzzer, the instant we were allowed to, but still ended up in C group. When we finally lined up we […]
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We reached Brussels before sunset, perfect for checking out the Bourse Christmas Market. We’d picked the right lodging in some ways and the worst in others. The hotel was right next to the market and the hub of the city, but it was also somehow very loud at night with clanging and banging and strange […]
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).