Today's Topics:
A Conceptual Proposal
(Long) Your Tax Dollars at Work
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Date: Fri, 21 Oct 1994 02:14:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Adam Gulkis <ag5i+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: A Conceptual Proposal
Cc:
My name is Adam Gulkis. I am a freshman art major at Carnegie Mellon
University. I am working on a Concept Studio project that requires me
to collect statements from various sources. In this particular project
I am concentrating on the stereotype of Generation X. After I collect
the statements I will select several of them and starting at Warner Hall
(main administration), I will write the statements on the sidewalk in
chalk. I will then be asking passers-by to read the last statement
(easier than the entire thread as I suspect it will get quite large
quickly) and write a response in the next square. I foresee this
branching out to the larger buildings on the main campus quad (the Mall
and the Cut).
I am asking for your help in the collection of statements. i would like
you to write your reaction to Generation X, thoughts on it, or whatever.
Flames are welcome too, though that's not to say that I wish to be
flamed. I would like your reactions as quickly as possible as I will be
reposting some of them and trying to get a reaction to some of those
statements.
I thank you in advance.
Adam Gulkis
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Date: 22 Oct 94 00:21:50 EDT
From: Paul Woodford <72772.2633@compuserve.com>
To: Subgenius Digest <subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: (Long) Your Tax Dollars at Work
Message-ID: <941022042150_72772.2633_FHM55-1@CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Your Tax Dollars at Work!
I had to share this with you while it's still hot from the
press--yesterday the Social Actions office here at Hickam Air Force Base
published and distributed hundreds of copies of a "Human Relations
Disparaging Terms" pamphlet. God knows how many man-hours (or wymyn-hours)
went into its production, but it's obviously the product of extensive
research. Social Actions cites Webster's Third International Dictionary
(1986) as the source, and they thoughtfully offer the following caution on
the cover: "Contains terms which may be used or taken offensively." The
list itself is entitled "Slurs." Without further ado, I give you the list
in its entirety, leaving out only the definitions (the truly motivated will
beat a quick path to the nearest Webster's).
- Americanese
- Asiatic
- Babu (Baboo)
- Bag
- Bat
- Biddy
- Bimbo
- Bitch
- Bitch Goddess
- Blackcoat
- Blacky-White
- Boche (Bosche)
- Bogtrotter
- Bohunk
- Boogie (Boogy)
- Brass Ankle
- Buck
- Buckra (Buccra)
- Bugger
- Bugre
- Cajun (Cajan, Cajin)
- Campbellite
- Canuck
- Carl (Carle)
- Carline (Carlin)
- Chee-Chee
- Chinaman
- Chinaman's Chance
- Chink
- Cholo
- Christly
- Cockney
- Codger
- Conventicler
- Coon
- Coonass
- Coon Shouter
- Coon Song
- Cracker
- Croatan (Croatan Indian)
- Crow
- Dago
- Dago Red
- Dam
- Darktown
- Darky (Darkie, Darkey)
- Dinge
- Dink
- Eight Ball
- Eurasian
- Eyetie (Eytie)
- Feringhee (Feringhi, Feringi)
- Foreign Devil
- Frau
- Fritz
- Frog
- Frogeater
- Gachupin
- Ginney
- Ginzo
- Gook
- Goy (Goi)
- Greaseball
- Greaser
- Gringa
- Gringo
- Gugu (Goo-Goo)
- Guinea
- Gyneocracy
- Harp
- Hebe
- Heinie
- Holy Roller
- Honky (Honkie, Honkey)
- House Nigger
- Hun
- Hunky (Hunkie)
- Hunyak (Hunhock, Honyak, Honyock)
- Husky
- Irvingite
- Jake
- Jap
- Jesuitic
- Jesuitize
- Jesuitry
- Jew
- Jew Down
- Jewish Princess
- Jewy
- Jig (Jigg)
- Jigaboo
- Jim Crow
- Jim Fish
- John Chinaman
- Kaffir (Kafir, Caffer, Caffre)
- Kaffir Kitchen
- Kike
- Kraut
- Libertine
- Linthead
- Mammy
- Mass Priest
- Mex
- Mick (Mike)
- Mickey (Micky)
- Mister Charlie
- Mocky (Mockie)
- Moke
- Mongrel
- Mr. Charlie
- Muhammadan (Mohammedan)
- Nabob
- Nabobess
- Nig
- Nigger
- Nigger Chaser
- Niggerhead
- Nigger Heaven
- Nigger in the Woodpile
- Nigger-Shooter
- Nigger Toe
- Niggery
- Nig-Nog
- Nigra
- Nip
- Orthodoxism
- Pak
- Paki
- Papism
- Papist
- Papistic
- Papistry
- Pelado
- Polack (Polak)
- Pom
- Pommy
- Poor White
- Popery
- Popish
- Prelatic
- Prelatist
- Priestianity
- Priestism
- Red Bone
- Red-neck
- Redskin
- Roman
- Romanish
- Romanist
- Rooinek
- Roumi
- Russellite
- Russki (Russky, Ruski)
- Sambo
- Sassenach
- Shaveling
- Sheeny (Sheenie, Sheeney)
- Shegetz
- Shiksa (Shikse, Shicksa)
- Shine
- Siwash
- Skibby
- Slant-eye
- Smoke
- Spade
- Spig
- Spigotty (Spiggoty)
- Spik (Spick, Spic)
- Squarehead
- Squaw
- Squaw Man
- Tom, Dick, and Harry
- Turk
- Vice-God
- Whitey
- Whoreson
- Wiseacre
- Wog
- Wop
- Wowser
- Yellowbelly
- Yid
By the way, this is not the first "Human Relations Disparaging
Terms" pamphlet Social Actions has published--last year's Table of Taboo
Terms included slurs inexplicably absent this time around: e.g., Dutch,
Dutch courage, going Dutch, fem, femme, female, four-eyes, and yellow (the
adjective, as opposed to the noun "yellowbelly").
"Say, didn't they omit a few Disparaging Terms?" you ask. Yes,
even the most casual slinger of slurs will note some gaps, and I won't bore
you by trying to list them. But take "raghead," for example--why isn't it
here? After careful consideration, I've come to the following conclusion:
becoming an official Disparaging Term is akin to attaining sainthood. An
offensive term has to have a long history, a pedigree as it were, before
the scholars at Social Actions will put it on The List. Consider
"conventicler," if you will: a religious heretic who attends conventicles,
or secret meetings. This word was last uttered in normal conversation
sometime in the 17th Century. "Campbellite," a follower of Alexander
Campbell, founder of the Disciples of Christ, is by contrast one of the
newer slurs on The List, and it is at least a hundred years old. So you
see, these things take time. Just as the Vatican beatifies candidates
before granting them sainthood, I imagine that Social Actions maintains a
list of Semi-Slurs, containing words which may someday attain full
Disparaging Termhood. I fully expect to see "raghead" (not to mention
"camel jockey" and "sand monkey") hit the Big Time by, say, 2015.
"So what about 'bastard' or 'slut?'" you ask--Anglo-Saxon words
that have been around since the opposable thumb--why aren't they on The
List? And if you can't call someone a "whoreson," is it okay to call
someone a "whore?" Hey, these Social Actions people have college degrees!
I'm certainly not going to argue with them. But YOU can! Call or write
and ask them why YOUR favorite slurs aren't on the list--their number is
(808) 449-1701, and the address is 15 ABW/SL, Hickam AFB HI 96853.
To Slack in Human Relations,
Paul Woodford
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